THE ZIGZAG EFFECT

Highly entertaining, original, pacy rom-crime for teenagers who like their fiction fast, funny and chock-full of sass.

Sage is delighted to land a school holiday job that will help her earn enough money to pay for the photography course she REALLY wants to take. And working for a magician should be interesting, right? And there’s a cute boy who could make it very interesting indeed. But when Sage and The Great Armand’s two assistants, Bianca and Herb, stay late at the theatre, they break a wand on stage. Bianca is horrified, convinced they’ll be cursed. Sage and Herb dismiss her concerns, even after they get locked in the supply cupboard. Together. Overnight. And then things DO go really wrong. At the theatre, and at home. Sage investigates, but she struggles to figure out who to trust, who is hiding secrets, what is real and what is just clever trickery. Because there‘s no such thing as real magic ... is there? Lili Wilkinson is the author of seven novels, published in several territories around the world. She is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Melbourne University and spends most of her time reading and writing books for teenagers.