Please Don’t Leave Me Here

Tania Chandler

‘[F]irst-time author Chandler proves chillingly good at powerlessness, despair, and the unreasonable batterings of fate.’

Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser

‘[C]omplicated but intriguing … Chandler ensures twists and turns until then end.’

Weekly Times

‘A remarkable debut. Stylish, assured writing and a compelling, totally believable protagonist. Ms Chandler makes us believe in Brigitte even as we wonder whether to believe her.’

Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect

A riveting psychological thriller.

Kurt Cobain stands at the top of the stairs, wearing the brown sweater. ‘Please don’t leave me,’ she yells up at him. But it’s too late; he’s turning away as the tram slows for the stop out on the street.

Then she’s lying on the road. Car tyres are going past, slowly. Somebody is screaming. A siren howls.

Sweet voices of little children are singing ‘Morningtown Ride’.

Is Brigitte a loving wife and mother, or a cold-blooded killer?

Nobody knows why she was in the east of the city so early on the morning she was left for dead by a hit-and-run driver. It was the Friday before Christmas 1994 — the same day police discovered the body of a man beaten to death in her apartment.

Fourteen years later, Brigitte is married to the detective who investigated the murder, which she claims to have lost her memory of in the car accident. They have young twins, and seem to be a happy family. Until the reopening of the cold case.

Please Don’t Leave Me Here is about loss, love and lies. It is about pain, fear, and memory. And, above all, it is about letting go.

‘[F]irst-time author Chandler proves chillingly good at powerlessness, despair, and the unreasonable batterings of fate.’

Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser

‘[C]omplicated but intriguing … Chandler ensures twists and turns until then end.’

Weekly Times

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Format:Paperback

Size: 234mm × 153mm

Extent:304pp

ISBN (13):9781925106770

RRP:$29.99

Pub date:29 Jul 2015

Rights Held: World

Rights Sold: Germany (Suhrkamp), Poland (Wizard Media)

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AWARDS

2016 Ned Kelly Awards, Best First Fiction - Short-listed 2016 Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Awards for Best Debut Crime Book - Short-listed

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Tania Chandler

Tania Chandler is a Melbourne-based writer, writing teacher, and editor. All That I Remember About Dean Cola is her third novel.

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