Where You Left Us
By (Author) Rhiannon Wilde
University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
30th August 2022
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Paperback
344
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 31mm
324g
An evocative YA mash-up that's like Wuthering Heights meets Sherlock Holmes, with Taylor Swift's evermore as the soundtrack. Think Kristen Stewart playing Heathcliff, and Holmes and Watson as teenagers with social anxiety - all set on the beach. Cinnamon Prince is angry. She's living at home with her rockstar father after his latest breakdown, and she's stuck in a town where people have whispered that the Princes aren't quite right ever since the mysterious disappearance of her Great Aunt Sadie. Not that Cinnamon cares about anyone else's opinion. Except, she might be really starting to care what her gorgeous co-worker Daisy Leung thinks. Scarlett Prince is anxious. Most of the time, and also about spending the summer with her sister and barely there dad. She's holding it together. Just. But when sister's ex-boyfriend-now-best-friend Will starts helping her search for the truth about Sadie, things get all-the-ways complicated. Can solving the mystery fix their broken family A glittering, gothic mystery about healing, home and how to pick up the pieces when you feel left behind.
Rhiannon Wilde is a writer and former Brisbane high school teacher. Her debut novel, Henry Hamlet's Heart, won the Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2019, was longlisted for an Indie Book Award in 2021 and was a CBCA Notable Book of 2022. She can usually be found drinking coffee dressed like a slightly subdued Elton John, and lives with her partner on a hill near the sea.