The Long Night
By (Author) Christian White
Affirm Press
Affirm Press
28th October 2025
Australia
Paperback
304
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into aterrifying world.
Twenty years ago, a terrible thing happened in Jodie Gibbs life. She has been trying to forget that time ever since, pouring her trauma into her work and out of her mind. Until one night her daughter is kidnapped and Jodie is dragged back into the violence.
As Em and Jodie race into the darkness of the night, the agony of the past rushes up to meet them. It will take all their devotion and courage to escape this night alive.
Bold, vivid and heart-racingly intense,The Long Nightis the darkest and most exhilarating novel yet from bestselling author Christian White.
Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter whose credits include feature film Relic, Netflix series Clickbait and Paramounts Apartment 7A. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child (2018), was one of Australias bestselling debut novels ever, with rights sold in 17 international territories and a major screen deal. Christians second book, The Wife and the Widow (2019), and third, Wild Place (2021), were instant bestsellers.