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When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole by Geoff Parkes

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When the Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole

by Geoff Parkes

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Narrator Michael Whalley

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Language English

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'She wasn't the first and she wouldn't be the last; swallowed into the deep, dark recesses of the King Country bush, never to be seen again.'

It's January 1983. During his university summer break, Ryan Bradley returns to the remote town of Nashville in New Zealand's rugged King Country.

It's a bittersweet trip: he's working long, punishing hours as a woolpresser, he needs to sell his late mother's house, and he's increasingly feeling like an outcast in his childhood town.

But mostly he's haunted by memories of Sanna Sovernen, a Finnish backpacker and his secret lover, who worked with him in the shearing shed the summer before - then vanished without trace.

Now Sanna's sister Emilia has arrived from Finland, determined to get answers - and as he's the workmate who reported Sanna missing, she wants Ryan's help. Because Emilia knows her sister was not the first female traveller in the area to disappear . . .

Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Geoff Parkes (Author)
Born and raised in rural New Zealand, Geoff Parkes now lives in Melbourne. For the last twelve years he's written a weekly opinion column for The Roar, Australia's leading on-line sports website. This is his first novel.

Michael Whalley (Reader)
Michael Whalley hails from Christchurch, New Zealand, and has enjoyed a varied career on stage, screen, audiobooks and voiceover in Australia and New Zealand. His stage highlights include Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Melbourne, the title role in Romeo and Juliet (Auckland Theatre Company); Hir (Belvoir St Theatre); The Threepenny Opera (Malthouse Theatre), Muriel's Wedding the Musical as Perry Heslop (Sydney Theatre Company) and A Very Jewish Christmas Carol (Melbourne Theatre Company). His work in television includes Halifax: Retribution, Wanted, The Principal, Love Child, Pirates of the Airwaves and US series Legend of the Seeker. Michael's International film career includes Unbroken, Jean, The Pretend One, Pirates of the Airwaves, Slow West and Lord of the Rings. Michael won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor for Hir at Belvoir St. Theatre