Bøker av Averil Kenny

The captivating new novel from the author of Those Hamilton Sisters and The Girls of Lake EvelynIn the 1960s, a tropical island in the Coral Sea hides dark secrets behind its primordial beauty. Thalia - Tally - Ramsey has grown up barefoot, wild and free on the island purchased by her maternal grandfather.

Hva skjedde egentlig med jentene som forsvant i Lake Evelyn? I en småby full av hemmeligheter finnes to kvinner som ikke vil la fortiden hvile. Australske Averil Kennys gripende roman fra femtitallets Queensland er umulig å legge fra seg.1958: Når den unge kvinnen Vivienne George rømmer fra sitt eget bryllup, søker hun tilflukt i en øde hytte i Australias North Queensland. Her føler hun lettelse over å ha unnsluppet livet hun var tiltenkt, og tilbringer dagene med å svømme i Lake Evelyn. Det viser seg imidlertid at lite er som det synes i det rolige landsbysamfunnet. Vivienne får snart greie på at den glamorøse skuespillerinnen Celeste Starr druknet i Lake Evelyn mange år tidligere, og at tragedien tilsynelatende har utløst en forbannelse som har rammet flere unge jenter. Når Vivienne og hennes karismatiske nye venninne Josie begynner å grave i fortidens hendelser, kommer flere hemmeligheter til overflaten, og de to kvinnenes liv skal forandres for alltid.

The Girls of Lake Evelyn is an irresistible story of love, family, women, secrets and mystery set in the lush region of tropical north Queensland. For readers of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton.You cannot force me to marry him.I need to be free, to figure out what I want.For once, please let me choose . . . It's 1958 and Vivienne George is due to marry Howard Woollcott III in the finest society wedding of the year. But when she realises she can't marry a man she doesn't love, she flees, with the help of her Uncle Felix, to a small town in Tropical North Queensland.Hidden away in a secluded lodge, Vivienne spends her days swimming in the beautiful lake nearby and getting to know kind Owen Monash, her only neighbour for miles. It may seem like the perfect place to escape her troubles, but there's something about this mysterious lodge and the lake outside which put Vivienne on edge. When she meets Josie Monash, Owen's sister, she learns of Celeste Starr, a beautiful movie star who tragically died in the lake and spawned a curse that has plagued the girls of the town ever since. When Josie decides to stage a play about Celeste, with Vivienne in the lead role, it sets off a chain of dark events. Is there any truth in the legend of the girls of Lake Evelyn? And how will Vivienne find the life she's always wanted when her past comes back to haunt her?

But when she realises she can't marry a man she doesn't love, she flees, with the help of her Uncle Felix, to a small town in Tropical North Queensland. Hidden away in a secluded lodge, Vivienne spends her days swimming in the beautiful lake nearby and getting to know kind Owen Monash, her only neighbour for miles.

It is now 1955 and following her death, her daughters, the Hamilton sisters, have come to make the town their home. Sonnet, at twenty years old, has never set foot in Noah Vale, but has been the talk of the town for decades.