Margot McGovern Margot McGovern i(A125866 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon This Stays Between Us Margot McGovern , Melbourne : Penguin , 2025 29175397 2025 single work novel horror young adult

'Margot McGovern's homage to 90s horror films and final girls will keep you on the edge of your seat.

'Four girls share a cabin on their school retreat - in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack is known to haunt the isolated campers.

'Shelley is the new girl with her own haunted past.
Mack made things awkward by kissing her best friend.
Priya thinks she's ready to take the next step with her boyfriend.
Raffi has a flair for drama, and convinces them all to hold a seance.

'But when you call on the darkness, sometimes the darkness replies . . .' (Publication summary)

1 Euryhaline Margot McGovern , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Hometown Haunts : #LoveOzYA Horror Tales 2021; (p. 129-147)
1 3 y separately published work icon Neverland Margot McGovern , Sydney : Random House Australia , 2018 8573523 2018 single work novel young adult

'I forced a smile. ‘I’m not afraid.‘

'After doing herself near-fatal damage, Kit Learmonth has come home. But it’s a place she hardly recognises: the mermaids are hiding, the witch has packed up her cauldron and the pirates have sailed to more bountiful shores. In their place is Neverland and its inhabitants - damaged teens too sick to be in regular school, but not sick enough to be institutionalised, watched over by her psychiatrist uncle. And Kit is one of them.

'Kit has a choice. She can use illicit night-time adventures with her friends and mysterious new boy Rohan to avoid the truth. Or she can separate harsh reality from childhood fantasy and try to remember what happened on the night of her parents’ deaths. What really prompted her family’s departure from the island? Was there a monster who drove them away? Is the monster still there?

'The more Kit uncovers, the more she realises that perhaps she should be afraid …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Lip Lit: Springtime : A Ghost Story Margot McGovern , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2015;

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
1 The Promise by Tony Birch Margot McGovern , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of The Promise : Stories Tony Birch , 2014 selected work short story
1 Lip Lit : the Unknown Woman Margot McGovern , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2014;

— Review of The Unknown Woman Jacqueline Lunn , 2014 single work novel
1 Lip Lit : The Loud Earth Margot McGovern , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2014;

— Review of The Loud Earth Elisabeth Murray , 2014 single work novella
1 Lip Lit : The Yellow Papers Margot McGovern , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2014;

— Review of The Yellow Papers Dominique Wilson , 2014 single work novel
1 Lip Lit : Hades Margot McGovern , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2014;

— Review of Hades Candice Fox , 2014 single work novel
1 Review : The Last Girl Margot McGovern , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2013 - January 2014 no. 357 2013-2014; (p. 70)

— Review of The Last Girl Michael Adams , 2013 single work novel
1 [Review] Thyla Margot McGovern , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 332 2011; (p. 79)

— Review of Thyla Kate Gordon , 2011 single work novel
1 Memory of a Kiss i "One frozen August afternoon", Margot McGovern , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sorcerers and Soothsayers : Friendly Street Poets 35 2011; (p. 69)
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