Jo has spent her life running away from her problems, instead of trying to tackle them. She run from her childhood in England, from Art School in London. She ran from a failed relationship, after a miscarriage, with her boyfriend Eric in Sydney and is now in Western Australia, working as a fruit picker on a farm in the middle of nowhere.
The work on the fruit farm is tough, but reasonable. The fruit packers pick fruit by hand all day in the blistering heat, the retreat of an evening to a tin shed, with no electricity, they use a fire pit for some light, have showers and retreat to bed exhausted in preparation for the next gruelling day.
Jo befriends the famer and his young son and they form a bond together. A tragic accident occurs at the farm with one of Jo's co-workers. Jo becomes traumatised by the accident and the urge to resurfaces again.
Whilst working at the farm, Jo meets Gabe, Jo describes to her the off the grid community that he resides with, it is remote and undiscovered and to Jo this sounds like heaven, a place that is unrecognised and unknown, a place that is welcoming and a place to escape from reality.
This novel was a great thriller, with lot of unexpected twists and turns.
Thankyou to Better Reading for my advanced copy, in return I offer my honest review.
4 Stars: I enjoyed it and would recommend it to people who like the genre. I will definitely want to read more books by this author
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