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The Survivors Paperback – 22 September 2020

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The compelling new novel from Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry.

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

PRAISE FOR THE SURVIVORS

'It's now clear Harper has a gift...every book has a distinct landscape that plays a central part in the plot made possible by her uncanny knack of bringing scenery to life' Daily Telegraph

'Another suspenseful thriller...unearthing dark secrets, hidden guilt and simmering social tensions.' Herald Sun

'A crime-writing force of nature' Adelaide Advertiser

'Global success story' Courier Mail

'Clever with beautifully articulated portrayals of people and place' vogue.com.au

'Jane Harper creates an impressive landscape that serves to illustrate how the experience of place inevitably shapes the lives of those who live there. You may find it hard to leave behind.' Sydney Morning Herald

'With consummate skill, Harper steadily builds the suspense to an unexpected climax, while also taking a sharp-eyed look at the intricacies of small communities and the enduring toll of guilt. Highly recommended.' Canberra Weekly

'An intriguing mystery, but a deeper layer is added by the well-drawn characters and their relationships...a new Harper book is a treat and this is another cracking read.' Good Reading

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Paperback : 384 pages

Dimensions : 15.6 x 3.2 x 23.2 cm

ISBN-10 : 1760783943

ISBN-13 : 978-1760783945

Publisher : Macmillan Australia (22 September 2020)

Language: : English

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The compelling new novel from Jane Harper, the internationally bestselling author of The Dry.

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The compelling new novel from Jane Harper, the internationally bestselling author of The Dry.

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Jane Harper is the internationally bestselling author of the The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man and The Survivors. Her books are published in forty territories worldwide, and The Dry has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Eric Bana. Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

About the Author

Jane Harper is the internationally bestselling author of the The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man and The Survivors. Her books are published in forty territories worldwide, and The Dry has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Eric Bana. Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

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Jann58
Not as good as others
Reviewed in Australia on 30 September 2020
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I found this book very hard to keep interested in, and at times it is downright boring. The characters aren’t appealing and maybe this is because they come across as quite shallow. I expected much more from this book as the topic is interesting, unfortunately the book left me feeling indifferent.
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Clark Forbes
Survival of the fittest
Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2020
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The author, one of the brighter recent stars in the crime writing firmament, continues her passion for stripping bare the secrets and lies of small rural communities. This time a small Tasmanian coastal hamlet bears the brunt of her forensic exhumation of the tortured minds - and darker deeds - of its denizens. Again the author displays her ability to get under the skin of her characters and reveal how the past has so often informed their actions. Where she stumbles, slightly, is the ending which as in a couple of her previous books leaves the reader vaguely dissatisfied.
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Her best yet
Reviewed in Australia on 1 November 2020
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You discover whodunnit at the end, but this is one of those books that you wish continued after it stops. How did everyone react after? Harper brings to life a small Tasmanian coastal town, the feel of which will be familiar to many Australians. Kieran, Mia and baby Audrey return from Sydney to help Kieran’s mum Verity pack up the house. Dad Brian has dementia and Verity has booked him into a facility, planning to buy a small place nearby. As Kieran and Mia meet up with old friends, they make the acquaintance of Bronte, a young art student down from Canberra who’s waitressing at the local Surf and Turf. Twenty four hours later, Bronte is dead. In between advancing the current case, Harper fills us in on traumatic events twelve years earlier when a superstorm caused tremendous damage and two deaths for which Kieran feels much guilt. As the book progresses, we discover that the story everyone believed is not quite right.

Apart from being a riveting story set in a beautiful place, the thing I particularly admired was the way Harper adds nuance to her characters, giving them a subtlety of psychology that you often don’t get in a murder mystery. There’s a particularly real feel to this book, in that the ultimate cause of the deaths wasn’t that someone was malign - it’s more a case of small town psychology with its attendant shame, fear and guilt operating powerfully on an otherwise very decent person. As such, it has notes of ancient tragedy. As in many recent books, the bad behaviour of anonymous people online is a feature. Too many ids on display.
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Small Town conflicts
Reviewed in Australia on 20 October 2020
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The story of Kieran, who due to his thoughtlessness as an eighteen year old is blamed for the death of his brother, who supposedly came to rescue him, but drowned before he could do that. Kieran on his return to the small outpost of Evelyn Bay in Tasmania, eventually finds out that his brother wasn't actually on a mission to rescue him, which is a relief to Kieran.
The story is well written and the endless small town rivalries and conflicts are well drawn.
The book certainly keeps the readers attention right to the end, although I found the eventual outcome somewhat unlikely and not very satisfactory from the readers point of view
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Andrew Jennings
Steady pace, very strong writing.
Reviewed in Australia on 21 November 2020
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I really like her books. She has a way of conveying atmosphere and situation in a quite subtle manner. The fascination of small town life to the city dweller is at the centre, and once again this book explores a very small town. There are absolutely no rough edges here, just very high quality writing that holds you right from the start. I expect I will buy and read everything she writes. Well done.
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Reviewed in Australia on 1 October 2020
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Easy to read with a rather average but nonetheless fair engaging plot. It misses the mark on being a criminal thriller because the investigation is not detailed or forensic. I would say overall, it is a superficial read about shallow characters.
It is not of the same caliber as The Dry.
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MargMARM
Jane Harper writes fabulous fiction
Reviewed in Australia on 26 October 2020
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As a Jane Harper 'fan', I was not disappointed by her latest novel. As always, she conjures up a place and its atmosphere so that you can feel and hear the environment in which the story is set.
This novel is a really interesting and multifaceted view of loss and guilt, but is never maudlin. The characters are variously mired in the past, and really reflect how people respond differently to a shared experience.
This is a mystery of course, and a very clever one at that. The denouement is a balance between hope and despair - much like life itself.
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Elsie
Didn’t take me into the depth of the era
Reviewed in Australia on 11 November 2020
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Look I haven’t read Jane Harper yet but Ken Follett has tapped out a pretty ordinary book here. Having read Pillars of the Earth I felt he really missed the comparative language here. It failed to take me into the depths of this era. I can’t feel it smell or see the milieu.
Shame because the story line may have worked well. I think I’m within a minority with this opinion as most I’ve read were pretty positive
I’d rate this book 4/10... oooh brutal
The 5 stars are for price and delivery time it was amazing. Well done. Cheers
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Mrs C V Pearce
Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2020
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I have really enjoyed reading Jane Hrper's previous books and was looking firward to this,her latest. What a let down........the characters had no depth to them, and I got irritated by the "waffly"padding to the story. i got halfway through the book and found I just didn't care about any of the characters, or what happened to them. Very disappointing.
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Johannes Bathelt
Full of suspense and atmosphere
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2020
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I read Jane Harper’s other books and really like her style. She has a knack creating vivid characters, ramping up the suspense, and delivering plot twists that do not insult the reader's intelligence. I also enjoy the settings that depict different landscapes in Australia and lend the stories heaps of atmosphere. The Survivors is no exception in that regard. The book is set on the rough shore of Tasmania. The protagonist is returning to his hometown that he left behind after a fateful storm that killed his brother and left a local girl missing. The tight-knit community begins to unravel when a young woman is found dead and hidden secrets are about to be dragged up. I massively enjoyed reading the book. In fact, I had to force myself to stop reading and not miss out on sleep. If you’re looking for a narrative escape, I’d highly recommend this book.
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JaquiP
Such a classy writer - absolutely absorbing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2020
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This is a writer who knows how to write well and keep readers guessing and their senses keen and their hearts both chilled and filled with wonder. I loved her first book The Dry for the tension and sense of place and she has done this again with this book with its focus on a small seaside town in Tasmania and it's links to the sea. The descriptions of the sea from its quiet moments to the terror of waves and the possibilities of drowning, and ever present sense of the rhythms, the roiling, the colours is so clever. "To the north, the rolling waves fizzed against the sand. To the south - Keiran froze.". It is about characters and love and family and guilt and secrets and left me guessing right up to the last page what the outcome would be. "The truth hurts a lot of people. That was the case then and it's the case now.". Each strand of the story skillfully weaved. It started slowly, the characters introduced and built to a crescendo the one night twelve years ago that broke so many people unravelled with a murder twelve years later as Kieran returns to cautiously re-engage and rebuild his past and present if they can ever be reconciled. A wonderful story told by a wonderful story teller. I look forward to her next novel.
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Best so far
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2020
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Her writing gets better and better. You really can believe in and care about her characters and the plot is so well put together with an ending of tension and excitement.
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Mrs Anne C Corrigan
Another great page-turner from Jane Harper
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2020
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I have read and enjoyed all of Jane Harper’s books and ‘The Survivors’ does not disappoint. I couldn’t put it down and read it in one day!
The characters are well-rounded and believable and the descriptions brought the caves and beaches in Tasmania to life. I really felt as if I was there in every scene.
As expected with a Jane Harper novel, there were many twists and turns in the plot with a few red herrings thrown in. I had no idea who dunnit until the final reveal. With other books I have usually worked out the plot well before the end but with this one, I really couldn’t guess.
A great page-turner, beautifully written with a great plot. I feel sad to have finished it.
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