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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 All Our Secrets
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'The River Picnic was one of the biggest events that ever took place in Coongahoola, and even wilder than the street party the night Malcolm Fraser became Prime Minister. The adults spoke about it in whispers and only when they thought us kids were out of earshot. All I knew for sure, apart from the fact that Stu Bailey’s wife drowned that night in the Bagooli River, was that four times more babies than usual were born the following October and not all of them looked like their dads.

'A girl called Gracie.

'A small town called Coongahoola, with the dark Bagooli River running through it.

'The Bleeders — hundreds of ‘Believers’ who move in and set up on the banks of the river. Who start buying up the town, and winning souls.

'The River Children — born in the aftermath of the infamous River Picnic. They start to go missing, one after the other.

'Gracie Barrett, the naively savvy spokesperson for her chaotic family (promiscuous dad, angry mum, twins Lucky and Grub, Elijah the River Child and fervent, prayerful Grandma Bett), for the kids who are taken, for the lurking fear that locks down the town and puts everyone under suspicion.

'Gracie is funny and kind, bullied and anguished, and her life spirals out of control when she discovers she knows what no one else does: who is responsible.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      Rose Mira Books ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 300p.p.
      ISBN: 9780994132215
    • Bittern, Mornington Peninsula (Western Port Bay), Western Port Bay area, Victoria,: Clan Destine Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 270 p.p.
      ISBN: 0648293793, 9780648293798
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