THE HALF-BROTHER

What if your long-lost brother wants to tear your family apart?

In this domestic noir, award-winning author Chrissie Perrie, writing as Christine Keighery, explores what happens when a newcomer carrying secrets from the past upsets delicate family ties.

Hannah and Steph are sisters who could not be more different. Hannah, cool and intelligent, is an academic who lives with Rex, who is older and doesn't want to have any more children. Steph, warm and open, is separated from Liam and has two children. Their tightly knit family is tested when Marg, their mother, shares that she had a child out of wedlock when she was a teenager. Their new-found brother, Alex, has found Marg and wants to meet. Rich and controlling, Alex inveigles his way into their family, and, making up for lost time, begins to pick apart the family's strong bonds to his liking so he can never be abandoned again. Building beautiful tension Keighery has created a suspenseful tale with strong female characters that will delight readers of Sally Hepworth's The Mother-in-Law and Anna Downes' The Safe Place.

Chrissie Perry/Christine Keighery is the author of over thirty books for children and young adults, including thirteen books in the popular Go Girl series, the beloved Penelope Perfect series and Whisper, a YA novel that was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Book Award, was a CBCA Notable, and won an IBBY. Chrissie live sin Southbank, Victoria, Australia.