Extracts

The boy who had been missing for ten years stepped into the light.

Anthony Albanese never knew his father growing up.

It was hot.

It happens just three days into one of the world’s most gruelling treks.

Like Rev.

At 12.

The fell land we are gathering today doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to the National Trust.

Lily pulled her phone out of her pocket and checked the time: 7.

1950 ‘The boy has developed bronchiectasis – a spot on the lung.

‘If you reach the camp before me, I’ll let you live,’ the Soldier said.

One of the biggest mistakes we make is underestimating how much the simple things have an impact on our health and fitness.

When Cate Christie had left the city, she had known it wasn’t going to be for good.

JURIS The importance of a big family Christmas was something I gained from Lois, but by 2013 it was a long time since we’d had one.

Lifting the corner flap of flyscreen, Robbie pushed against the stained- glass window of the schoolroom.

Bish dreamt of his son again.

There is no escaping the truth.

There were snowdrifts at the curbs and snow-buried benches in the parks and snowcaps on the street signs and fire hydrants and on the newel posts for the subway entrances.

For the duration of his wife’s disclosure, David’s eyes followed the lines of the patterned ceiling in their bedroom.

1817 – The Mountain Florence pushed open the bark door of the humpy.

The dirty old Cessna came down on the landing strip, and bounced.

It’s time to reflect.

York – 1915 The argument had been tame, polite even, but there was no doubt in her mind that if she didn’t make a decision, it would be made for her.

Adam came into her office without knocking, startling her, and asked her if she’d seen his phone.

My birth served as fair warning that I’d be nothing but a troublesome little brat.