Missing Girl

A piercing story about five sisters - Beauty, Fancy, Autumn, Stevie and Mim - juggling their funny, sad, difficult lives, and what happens when one of them is kidnapped by the man'.

This is the story of five sisters. Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy and Autumn. The girls go about their hectic lives - planning, arguing, laughing and crying - until the struggling family's financial crisis threatens to tear them apart.

Beauty longs for love.

Mim holds a secret tightly.

Stevie is tempestuous and impulsive.

Fancy talks too much and understands too little.

And Autumn, the youngest sister, struggles to discover who she is.

None of the Herbert girls is aware of the mild-looking man who has become obsessed with them - until the day one sister doesn't come home.

In alternating points of view, Norma Fox Mazer managers to interweave the lives of predator and prey in this unforgettable psychological dram. Lyrical, powerful and deeply emotional.

About Norma Fox Mazer
Norma Fox Mazer has written over 30 novels and short-story collections for young adults, including Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear , When She Was Good , Missing Pieces , Out of Control , Girlhearts , and the Newbery Honor Book After the Rain . Her books have won many prestigious awards. Nine of her titles have been designated Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association.

Norma grew up in a small city at the foot of the Adirondack Mountains, the middle of three sisters. She saw witches in doorknobs and dancers in wallpaper, and decided to be a writer when she was 12. Later she married Harry Mazer, with whom she had four children and has co-authored three novels. Norma says: Every day, I feel blessed to have this life, to be able to sit at my desk and dream and write stories that other people are going to read ... Nearly everything in my life seems to be measured and remembered by the links between family and writing.'

Missing Girl
Allen & Unwin
Author: Norma Fox Mazer
ISBN: 9781741752793
RRP: $17.95