Honey Brown – December 2014

International Day of People with Disability – December 3 2014

Honey is an award-winning novelist. She spent years living in small towns all around Australia, and from an early age wrote about things, but writing wasn’t her day job. At 29, Honey’s life changed when a farm accident left her with a spinal cord injury, unable to walk without assistance and mostly confined to a wheelchair. Having already written some short stories and tinkered with the idea of writing a novel, the accident gave her the space to concentrate seriously on the craft of writing and becoming a novelist. Honey’s other novels include After the Darkness, Red Queen and the The Good Daughter.

Dark Horse
Penguin Australia, 2013; ISBN 9781921901539
It’s Christmas morning on the edge of the rugged Mortimer Ranges. Sarah Barnard saddles Tansy, her black mare and heads for the bush, escaping the reality of her broken marriage and bankrupted trail-riding business. She seeks solace in the ranges. When a flash flood traps her on Devil Mountain, she heads to higher ground, taking shelter in Hangman’s Hut. She settles in to wait out Christmas. A man, a lone bushwalker, arrives. Heath is charming, capable, handsome. But his story doesn’t ring true. Why is he deep in the wilderness without any gear? Where is his vehicle? What’s driving his resistance towards rescue? The closer they become the more her suspicions grow. But to get off Devil Mountain alive, Sarah must engage in this secretive stranger’s dangerous game of intimacy.

Through the Cracks
Penguin Australia, 2014; ISBN 9781921901546
A leafy street. A quiet neighbour. The darkest of crimes. Adam Vander has grown tall enough and strong enough to escape his abusive and controlling father. Emerging from behind the locked door of their rambling suburban home, Adam steps into a world he’s been kept isolated from. In the days that follow, with the charismatic and streetwise Billy as his guide, Adam begins to experience all that he’s missed out on. As the bond between the boys grows, questions begin to surface. Who is Adam really? Why did his father keep him so hidden? Was it just luck that Billy found him, or an unsettling kind of fate? And how dangerous is revealing the shocking truth of Adam’s identity? It’s a treacherous climb from the darkness. For one boy to make it, the other might have to fall through the cracks.