The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Written by Felicity McLean
Narrated by Cat Gould
3.5/5
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Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, living in an Australian suburb with her sister and their three best friends. The TV news in the background chattered with debate about the exoneration of Lindy ("dingo took my baby") Chamberlain. That summer was when the Van Apfel sisters, Ruth, Hannah, and the beautiful Cordelia, mysteriously disappeared. Did they just run-far away from their harsh, evangelical parents-or were they taken? While the search for the girls united the small community, the mystery of their disappearance was never solved, and Tikka and her older sister, Laura, have been haunted ever since by the loss of their friends and playmates.
Now, years later, Tikka has returned home to try to make sense of that strange moment in time, of the summer that left her frozen in the past, of the girls that she never forgot.
Part mystery, part darkly comic coming-of-age story, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone is a stunning debut-with a dark, shimmering absence at its heart.
Felicity McLean
Felicity McLean's debut novel, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone, has been published in more than half a dozen countries. It was a Barnes & Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' pick in the US, and was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, and longlisted for the UK's Dagger Awards, and the Davitt. Her book, Body Lengths, co-written with Olympian Leisel Jones, was Apple Books 'Best Biography of 2015' and won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards 'Reader's Choice' for Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year.
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