Audio only
Length8h 35m
About this audiobook
Part mystery, part coming of age story, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone is set in a distant suburb on the encroaching bushland, over the long hot summer of 1992. It's the summer of the school's Showstopper concert. The summer Tikka never forgot. The summer the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. Blackly comic, sharply observed and wonderfully endearing.
'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song and when one came back, she wasn't the one we were trying to recall to begin with.'
Tikka Molloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992 - the summer the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. Hannah, beautiful Cordelia and Ruth vanished during the night of the school's Showstopper concert at the amphitheatre by the river, surrounded by encroaching bushland.
Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try and make sense of the summer that shaped her, and the girls that she never forgot.
Blackly comic, sharply observed and wonderfully endearing, this is Picnic at Hanging Rock for a new generation, a haunting coming-of-age story with a shimmering, unexplained mystery at its heart.
'The debut of a striking new voice in Australian fiction.' Adelaide Advertiser
'How do you escape your childhood, emotionally, actually? This compelling mystery by Felicity McLean has a rare depth of psychological and emotional truth. It will engage your heart.' Delia Ephron
'Sharp, mysteriously moving and highly entertaining' Robert Drewe
'An exceptional piece of storytelling' Australian Book Review
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.5 (7.1K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byEloise Oxer
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
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