The Fancies

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HQ
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 373 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Abigail Fancy returns to the tiny town that the Fancys have ruled for decades, fresh from her second stint in prison and utterly out of time... A bold, punchy and wry novel from the author of The Other Side of Beautiful. A story about stories: those we tell, those we believe and those we make into a reality, whether true, murky or not true at all. Port Kingerton: the insular cray-fishing town at the butt-end of South Australia, where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knows too that when Abigail Fancy left town at seventeen, she hung out the window of her boyfriends Corolla, middle fingers held high, swearing shed never come back. And she hasnt, until now. At her parents house Abigail finds a party (read town meeting) in full swing over something iffy found on the beach - a thighbone. And although iffy things arent uncommon in Port Kingerton, Abigails surprise arrival forces a family - and an entire town - to unpack a twenty-four-year-old secret that rocked this tiny place to its core: that time they found something much iffier ... Through Abigail, her grandfather Old Dick Fancys unreliable memories and the collective voices of the town itself, Port Kingerton unravels as old wounds are picked open, skeletons fall from closets and unlikely bonds are forged. But will Abigail finally change the past ... Fresh, punchy, expertly crafted and deliciously wry - the author of The Other Side of Beautiful returns with a tour de force of a small-town mystery where a homecoming lifts the veil on a time when a town failed to stand up for its girls.

ISBN: 9781867251620