It’s late ’70s Australia, blistering summer, and Warrah Place is your average cul-de-sac: an idyllic place to grow up. Unless you’re the murdered Italian teen who never got the chance, of course. As Antonio Marietti’s death takes the Canberran neighbourhood by storm, gossip and suspicion bounces from household to household – and it seems nasty secrets lurk behind every suburban front door. Winner of the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction, Kate Kemp – a trained psychotherapist – brings us an evocatively set thriller with sharp observations on the nature of misogyny and prejudice. Full of intrigue and surprising wit, The Grapevine is an entertaining and suspenseful examination of society’s inherent flaws.
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