Flyaway

"Prepare to be unsettled, to catch dread welling up in your bones, to pause often on a turn of phrase or image so spare and vivid and lovely it will draw blood. I want to bite Kathleen Jennings’ prose and feel it snap between my teeth it’s so damn good. Flyaway braids together folk horror and fairy tale, things older than the hills, and wild, uncanny and awful politeness. Bettina’s dad and brothers disappeared; she doesn’t think about it. “Once you start forgetting, it’s easy.” Then a letter sets her and two friends on a quest to uncover the truth in this atmospheric Australian gothic."