THE LOST GIRLS

Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Fourteen-year-old Angie Buchanan is abducted and murdered, and a family is changed forever. When, thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic events, everyone involved is forced to reconnect with a past they would prefer to forget.

For Angie's cousin Jane, this re-examination of her childhood is inititallly cathartic, an escape from the uncertainties of her adult life. But as more details about Angie's last das are revealed, Jane is forced to question not only the events of the past, but the reality of her present. Are the people she loves who they say they are? Is this the life she really wanted? For the investigating journalis, Erin, the family's confidences halp to illuminate some dark corners of her own life. But whose version of Angel's story - whose version of Angie herself - is the real one? And can past wrongs ever be made right? The shocking truth will change everyone involved, and nothing - not the past, not the present, not even the future - is as they once imagined. Wendy James writes smart, compelling women's fiction with a dark edge, including The Mistake. She currently lives in Newcastle, New South Wales, with her husband and children.