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Etta, Peter and Jonah all find themselves at a cabin by the shore of Yellow Lake, and flung together in the terrifying series of events that follows.Jonah has come to Yellow Lake to try to get in touch with his Ojibwe roots. Peter is there to bury a lock of his mothers hair - her final request. Etta is on the run from her mothers creepy boyfriend, Kyle, and his dodgy friends.But as the three take shelter in the cabin, finding surprising solace in each others company, they soon realise that they have inadvertently stumbled onto the scene of a horrifying crime, and Kyle and his cronies have no intention of letting them escape.A sparkling debut from new childrens author, Jane McLoughlin, At Yellow Lake will keep readers gripped until the final page. ,
About the Author
I write because I can't stop; it's an addiction for which there's no rehab. Writing is where I can be myself and live a 'real' life impossible within the conventions of real-life society. I wrote my first novel at 13, using the homework exercises in my Latin text book as the basis for a story about a young Roman boy, a prisoner, who accompanies Hannibal across the Alps and becomes his special friend (I had no idea then how that could be interpreted). This was followed by a lurid tale of sex and perversion in the suburbs, based disastrously on the little I knew about my parents' conventionally happy marriage. That taught me I had to find out about LIFE, so after university (Trinity College, Dublin) I went into journalism deliberately to try to fill some of the gaps in my knowledge before I could become a real writer. I covered the troubles in Northern Ireland; I climbed to the base Camp on Everest. I was hi-jacked on an internal flight in Ethiopia which ended when a security guard in the seat behind the gunman leaned over and cut his throat. For a few magic moments I took the controls of Concorde on an inaugural flight to Singapore. But most importantly, journalism gave me a licence to probe what people do and say under extreme stress, and to ask prying questions about their feelings I could never have asked in cold blood. Everything I learned from other people's experience became grist to my ficitonal mill. I have published 10 thrillers, and several non-fiction books arising out of my specialist interests as a journalist -- women's issues and industry. Now I live in the country and keep chickens, but if that implies life has more restricted horizons, it's not true. Give me a pen and a blank sheet of paper and the world is my oyster!
