The Fog
By (Author) Brooke Hardwick
Simon & Schuster Australia
Simon & Schuster Australia
4th September 2024
Australia
Fiction
Psychological thriller
Paperback
368
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
A woman on the brink travels to a remote writers retreat to uncover the secrets of her past and lands herself in a deadly situation that could destroy her future.
One year ago, Kates loving husband disappeared. Desperate to uncover the memories she has somehow lost, and understand her role in the marriage breakdown, she signs up for a ten-day writers retreat on the wild, remote island of Rathlin in the freezing Irish Channel.
As the retreats director uses techniques that tap into the eerie mythology of the island, Kate becomes increasingly fascinated by him and her surrounds. But as the temperature plummets and the strange therapy intensifies, her memories unspool. Triggered into a series of disturbing flashbacks, Kate realises her past hides a frightening truth, but can she trust her own mind
Faced with dark secrets and duplicity, Kate must unlock the answers shes so desperate to find and survive the danger she has unwittingly walked into.
Born in tropical North Queensland, Brooke Hardwick graduated with a teaching degree and left to see the world. Since then, shes lived and worked in England, Scotland and Hong Kong and is currently based in an ancient fort town shaped like a snowflake in the Netherlands.She is fascinated with the psychology of psychological thrillers and thinks theres nothing more terrifying than human nature. When she isnt writing, Brooke combs fields for shards of Delft pottery and reads thrillers until shes too scared to sleep. The Fog is her debut novel.