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Christian White and his latest thriller, The Ledge
CHRISTIAN WHITE is an Australian screenwriter and author of bestselling novels The Nowhere Child, The Wife and the Widow and Wild Place.
His latest novel, The Ledge, is a twisty thriller that tells the story of a group of teenage boys and the long-held secret that they’ve carried into adulthood. AKINA HANSEN writes.
Read our book review of The Ledge by Christian White
I think it would be fair to say that for many of us our teenage years are some of our ...
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