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Title:
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone (MP3)
Written by:
Felicity McLean 
Read by:
Eloise Oxer 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
Number of CDs:
Duration:
8 hours 35 minutes 
MP3 size:
372 MB 
Published:
August 01 2019 
Available Date:
August 01 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9780655621720 
Genres:
Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery; Psychological Fiction 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock.

'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 11 and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, growing up in an isolated suburb in Australia surrounded by encroaching bushland. That summer, the hottest on record, was when the Van Apfel sisters – Hannah, the beautiful Cordelia and Ruth – mysteriously disappeared during the school's Showstopper concert, held at the outdoor amphitheatre by the river. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters unites the small community, the mystery of their disappearance has never been solved. Now, years later, Tikka has returned home and is beginning to make sense of that strange moment in time. The summer that shaped her. The girls that she never forgot. Brilliantly observed, spiky, sharp, funny and unexpectedly endearing, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone is part mystery, part coming-of-age story – with a dark shimmering unexplained absence at its heart.

'This debut, part coming-of-age story and part crime thriller, is both forceful and unnerving.'
Publishers Weekly

'A hot, tense thriller set in the midst of a scorching Australian summer, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone is provocative, gripping, and sure to get under your skin.'
The Bookbag

'McLean expertly maintains an air of suspense as the tragedy unfolds. Tikka is an unforgettable, if not entirely reliable, narrator full of black humour, brutal honesty and naive curiosity.'
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