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In Conversation with Petronella McGovern

Ballarat Mechanics Institute

117-119 Sturt Street,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Mon 20 Jul

6pm–7:30pm

$11 per person

Plus booking fee – Includes light refreshment. Tickets also available at the BMI library.

Petronella will be in conversation with author Paula Gleeson they will be talking about Petronella's new book Every Time She wakes.

A thriller you can't put down from the bestselling author of  Six Minutes  and The Last Trace, Every Time She Wakes is a taut, time-bending thriller about family, identity and defying fate.

When careers counsellor Suze and her family are evacuated from their home during a bushfire emergency, she suddenly realises they're being kidnapped. The van crashes and Suze thinks it's the end. But she wakes up two weeks back in time. No one else remembers the terror that came before. Is it all in her own mind? Then it happens again. And again.

With every loop, her world twists into a new version of itself. Suze must discover why it's happening and who is behind the kidnappings. She's running out of time to save her family and wake up in a world she recognises.

Find out about other author talks at the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute on their website.

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