This Stays Between Us
  • Published: 4 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761346286
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.00

This Stays Between Us

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Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Four girls share a cabin in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack haunts isolated campers.

Shelley is the new girl with her own haunted past.
Mack made things awkward by kissing her best friend.
Priya thinks she’s ready to take the next step with her boyfriend.
Raffi has a flair for drama, and convinces them all to hold a seance.

But when you call on the darkness, sometimes the darkness replies . . .

'Powerful, heartbreaking, hair-raising and absolutely terrifying. This feminist ode to the 90s slasher films is twisty, clever and frightening from beginning to end.' AMY DOAK, bestselling author of Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer
  • Published: 4 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781761346286
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.00
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About the author

Margot McGovern

Margot McGovern lives in Adelaide and has a creative writing PhD from Flinders University. Her debut novel, Neverland, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and her short horror fiction has appeared in issues of The Dark and the Aurealis-Award-shortlisted anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales. You can find Margot on Instagram: @margot.mcgovern

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Praise for This Stays Between Us

Powerful, heartbreaking, hair-raising and absolutely terrifying. This feminist ode to the 90s slasher films is twisty, clever and frightening from beginning to end.

Amy Doak, bestselling author of ELEANOR JONES IS NOT A MURDERER

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