![]() ![]() The novel’s structure offers a carefully constructed nonlinear narrative which juxtaposes present tense with childhood psychiatric transcripts, following an abduction which triggers much of the story. Epstein has created great characters, an authentic Australian small-town setting and grapples well with the idea of a family returning to a community that they’d left years earlier after a traumatic event. This is a refreshing, rollercoaster thriller that blurs the lines between truth and fiction and keeps you guessing until the end. Nine years later, Sparrow returns and the dark games continue. When she was eight years old, Tash’s imaginary friend Sparrow became a real-life nightmare. Small Spaces is a debut novel, a fast-paced, tightly crafted psychological narrative that is hard to put down. ![]() ![]() 28 February 2019 Image courtesy of on Twitter.Ĭan’t quite believe I’m telling you this, but Small Spaces has been shortlisted in the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature. ![]()
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