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Shelter Paperback – 5 January 2021

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A spine-tingling psychological thriller where everything is not as it seems, from one of Australia's best writers of suspense.

Meg lives alone- a little place in the bush outside town. A perfect place to hide. That's one of the reasons she offers to shelter Nerine, who's escaping a violent ex. The other is that Meg knows what it's like to live with an abusive partner.

Nerine is jumpy and her two little girls are frightened. It tells Meg all she needs to know about where they've come from, and she's not all that surprised when Nerine asks her to get hold of a gun. But she knows it's unnecessary. They're safe now.

Then she starts to wonder about some little things. A disturbed flyscreen. A tune playing on her windchimes. Has Nerine's ex tracked them down? Has Meg's husband turned up to torment her some more?

By the time she finds out, it'll be too late to do anything but run for her life.

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Publisher : Text Publishing (5 January 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1922330469
ISBN-13 : 978-1922330468
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.54 x 23.11 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 87,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2,429 in Small Town & Rural Fiction (Books)
- 5,414 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)

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"Catherine Jinks's latest work is a tense thriller that explores gaslighting, the different kinds of abuse people inflict upon one another and the way this abuse can ripple through generations...an engrossing read that calls to be finished in one sitting." Books+Publishing

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A rare thriller indeed

Reviewed in Australia on 11 April 2021

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With so many formulaic thriller writers around who pump out variations of the same book every 12 months, it's wonderful to read a refreshingly different work that makes you really think about the issues covered in the book.
A highly original work.

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Tense with a twist!

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2021

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Great story moves at a cracking pace with an intriguing protagonist! The twist a the end is a good one!

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Michael

psychological thriller

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2021

From Australian author Catherine Jinks comes her latest standalone thriller and what a ripper!! Two women meet up in the middle of night to facilitate the handover of another woman with two children. As they adjust to life together out in the boon docks, their past come back to haunt them. A gripping, atmospheric tale, that ratchets up the tension, with each page turned and has twists. A most realistic and believable psychological thriller with a 5-star rating.

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‘I first saw her spotlit by headlight, a pink plush rabbit tucked under her arm.’

Reviewed in Australia on 8 January 2021

Meg’s own experience with an abusive partner helps her to decide to help another woman who is fleeing, with two small children, from an abusive partner. Meg knows that she left it too long to leave her own partner, Keith, and as a result she is essentially estranged from her daughter Emily.

Nerine, the mother, seems incredibly stressed. Her daughters, Analiese and Colette are anxious and afraid. Meg thinks that she can help. Her home (aptly named ‘The Bolt Hole) is remote, and Meg has plenty of supplies to keep the family out of sight. Meg will provide the three of them with shelter for a few weeks until another woman is able to offer them shelter.

But Nerine is convinced that her husband will find her, and when strange things start happening around Meg’s home, Meg is concerned. Meg is in a dispute with her own ex-husband: is he trying to intimidate her, or is Nerine right?

What a bleak, heartbreaking, and incredibly beautifully written story this is. The characters are well-developed, the issues are real, and the tension is high. Nothing is straightforward, and while I worked out a few of the twists, I was not at all prepared for the ending. If you read this novel, be prepared to ride an emotional roller-coaster.

Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Text Publishing for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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Alice in Wonderland

A love which transcends all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2012

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This is not the usual book which I would pick up from the shelf but it looked interesting so I thought I would give it a try. After the first page I was totally absorbed by the characters even more so by the fact that none of them are given names. Gradually as the story unfolds you realise that names are totally irrelevant. This is a story of love found and lost in a world of turmoil followed by the harsh acceptance of moving on with the help of those around us who support us with their love through the years to come to terms with what life can cruelly throw at you. Ending with an acceptance that the deepest love never ever dies but lives within us always. Catherine Whiteway writes from the heart and shares this with her readers.

Mags

Shelter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2013

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This was the most unusual book I have ever read. The subject matter was not what I was expecting at all. It was beautifully and sensitively written with great insight and knowledge of her subject. I want to read more.

Laurie Lacroix

Finding your will to live

Reviewed in the United States on 8 September 2012

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When I started to read this book, I had no inkling of its contents, as the summary on its back was pretty vague. As I went on in my reading, I understood why: how can you summarize a story of anonymous loss? Of a heartbreaking journey through time to come to terms with life and its misgivings? Of learning to deal with what you have and what you miss? You can't. You write a book about it.

There were many times in my reading when I felt so much sympathy for the book's protagonist that it brought me to tears. I might be emotional with this kind of story at any time, but I rarely read any that has such a leveled realness to them. It's a novel, but it doesn't feel so romanticized. It's a fictional context, but the emotions that carried the story are perfectly easy to relate to.

One of the particularities of the writing was the author's ability to go through the whole story without naming a single character, and only vaguely situating its geography and era (and managing to almost entirely avoid awkward repetitions in the process). I don't know if there is much literature written that way, but it was certainly a first for me. Though it could appear to be a barrier between the reader and the protagonist, who narrates, it has the opposite effect. Without names, the characters could be anyone, they can take the shape of anyone you know, much more easily than with them. Their anonymity gave a particular feeling to the writing, and I felt myself part of their story, as an observer perhaps, but as their contemporary still, walking alongside them.

An excellent book filled with feelings, sometimes hard to deal with, but of the kind that makes you go on stronger.

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Jess

Amazing book.

Reviewed in the United States on 1 November 2013

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This book was an excellent read. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I've already told multiple people about it and have been asked if they could borrow it. This book brought me to tears, and I would definitely purchase it/ read it again. If you are considering purchasing this book, do it. You won't regret it.

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