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Bay of Fires

Poppy Gee

Deep in a national park on the east coast of Tasmania, the Bay of FiresÂ is an idyllic holiday community. There are no more than a dozen shacks beside the lagoon - and secrets are hard to keep; the intimacy of other people's lives is their nourishment.

The fact that Sarah Avery has returned, having left her boyfriend and her job, is cause for gossip in itself. Then, the bikini-clad body of a young girl is found washed upÂ on theÂ beach; a year after another teenage girl went missing. Journalist Hall Flynn is sent to the coast to investigate, and all too quicklyÂ the close-knit community turns in on itself. As he uncovers long-buried secrets, the delicate balance of their fragile lives is threatened. . .

Poppy Gee

Poppy Gee was born in Launceston Tasmania in 1977. She spends every summer with her family at their shack in the Bay of Fires. This novel was written as part of a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland which Poppy completed in 2011. This is Poppy's first published fiction. She has worked as a journalist editor and book reviewer and currently teaches journalism and creative writing. Poppy lives in Queensland Australia with her husband and two beautiful children. She has nearly completed her next novel another literary thriller set in the Tasmanian ski village Ben Lomond.