Beyond the Frame's Edge

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'Blood may well be thicker than water, but in some families, money runs thicker than blood.' A story of the darkness of the human soul, the twists of fate that can transform our lives and the dazzling beauty of our world.
Adyn Cole boards a flight from New York. He returns to Australia to bury his uncle, Fletcher, leaving a decade of life behind him--a lost job, a relationship in ruins. Although Adyn is favoured by his uncle's estate, Fletcher's passing yields a legacy of betrayal and ruptured kinship. In Koorawatha, his inherited Blue Mountains home, Adyn will discover how hard it is to escape the demons of the past, and how profoundly a family can be corrupted by greed. Yet living in the house are two people who will redeem him, helping him to mend a part of himself that has long been broken. A compelling story of the darkness of the human soul, the twists of fate that can transform our lives and the dazzling beauty of our world, BEYOND tHE FRAME'S EDGE is a powerful novel from an exciting new literary talent.

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Berndt Sellheim is the author of the novel Beyond the Frame's Edge (Fourth Estate, 2013). He has a doctorate in philosophy, and his poetry collection Awake at the Wheel (Vagabond, 2016) won the Federation of Australian Writers' Anne Elder Poetry Award. Berndt lives in British Columbia, Canada, with his wife, their daughter and a household of other creatures. He works in photography and video production for a museum outside Vancouver.