Verity Croker knows what it's like to live in a small town, so she understands the difficulty of keeping secrets. She grew up in Canberra, then moved to the Northern Territory where she lived in towns with populations under 1000, as well as Darwin. Moving to Scotland, she spent a year in Cromarty, a 17th century fishing village. Living and working in China in Shanghai and Nanjing, though huge cities, being an outsider from another culture meant she sometimes felt like she was living in a fishbowl.When she is not writing, she is reading a book, walking, or swimming in the ocean or pool. She has had several books, poems, short stories, travel articles, and newspaper articles published. Verity lives in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and teaches English to international students at the University of Tasmania. She can be contacted on veritycroker@hotmail.com and you can follow her on Twitter (@veritycroker) or visit her website: www.veritycroker.wordpress.com.
Verity Croker
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When Jilda embarks on a cruise with her mother and twin sister, Rosa, she has no idea of the ordeal she’ll face. Feeling unwell, Jilda stays in her cabin while her mother and sister go ashore to explore a Fijian island. Jilda emerges to find the ship has been commandeered by a group determined to use it to transport refugees away from the island nation of Levy Archipelago, which is flooding due to climate change.
Conditions on the ship deteriorate quickly due to overcrowding. The refugees grow restless with no idea of where they’re heading, and they mourn the loss of their animals they had to leave behind on the islands. Alone and afraid Jilda finds an ally in Jade—along with feelings she’s never experienced before. But will the relationship forming between them end when Jilda admits she has a boyfriend?
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Life in a small mining town can be like living in a fishbowl, where everyone knows everybody else's business. Fifteen-year-old Jodi's mother wants her father to quit his binge drinking and his dangerous job at the mine—even more so after a collapse leaves two miners dead and three trapped deep underground.
As tensions escalate both at home and around the town, Jodi seeks comfort with her friends but soon faces a double betrayal. Meanwhile, her ten-year-old brother Jake reacts by joining a gang of schoolyard bullies who engage in increasingly dangerous antics.
As Jodi struggles to gain autonomy over her life, she begins to discover the person she really is. But with everything around her spiraling out of control, it may not be the right time to let her family, friends, and ultimately the whole town know—no matter how much she wants to.
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