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    Angel Rock

    By Darren Williams

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    A beautiful, haunting, engrossing, terrifying, enchanting novel destined to win prizes and storm the bestseller lists. To read this book is a total immersion experience.

    Since it was first acquired in a hot auction, Darren Williams’ novel has attracted comparisons – Picnic at Hanging Rock, To Kill a Mockingbird, Stand By Me, to name but a few (and no coincidence that all three have been made into major movies, because Angel Rock is a feast for all the senses) – but it is also a completely unique and original novel.

    The setting is Australia, 1969. Two half-brothers get lost in the wild wooded countryside around the small town of Angel Rock. Only the eldest, 13-year-old Tom, finds his way home. At about the same time, a 16-year-old girl goes missing from the town and is found in Sydney. She has killed herself.

    The policeman who gets the case in the city follows the trail back to Angel Rock. In searching for a meaning in this tragic death, he is searching for nothing less than a meaning in his own troubled life.

    The tales of the policeman, Gibson, and the boy, Tom, converge in the mystical back-country of Angel Rock, in a story that is part coming-of-age, part detective thriller, of redemption both individual and communal, and altogether one story that you will never forget.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateDec 20, 2012
    ISBN9780007476565
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    Angel Rock
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    Darren Williams

    Darren Williams is an Australian novelist, best known for his award winning Swimming in Silk. His second novel Angel Rock, was published in 2002.

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    • 3/5
      Mysterious goings-on in the Australian Outback. I loved the overall feel of this book, but the end felt false to me.
    • 4/5
      This book plays in the isolated and quiet town of Angel Rock. Two boys, step-brothers Tom and Flynn, go missing. The town spends over a week searching for them, but looses hope and gives up. Then Tom suddenly turns up again, without his brother; he also does not remember anything about his time away.A few months later, a girl is found in Sydney, dead because of a suicide. One of the inspectors, Gibson, still haunted by his own sisters suicide decides to dig deeper into the case, especially when it turns out that the girl is from Angle Rock. With the help of Angel Rock's sherif, "Pop", and his daughter Grace, who was Darcy's best friend, Gibson begins to unearth the local feuds that led up to Darcy's suicide, and ultimately what happened to Tom's brother Flynn.