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Igniting The Past
New Zealand Listener
|June 30 - July 6 2018
In a tough Aussie novel, the case of a missing teen returns to haunt the living.
When fire sweeps through the small Australian town of Kin-sale, it leaves behind rage, grief and smouldering resentment. It also uncovers long-buried events from New Year’s Eve 1996 in which Grace, a teenager, left town and was never heard of again. Eliza Carmody was Grace’s friend. Now a corporate lawyer, she has been sent to find evidence to help fight a class action that the town is taking against the power company that they believe caused the fire as a result of negligence.
This story is from the June 30 - July 6 2018 edition of New Zealand Listener.
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