Podcast: Vikki Wakefield on the Craft of Writing Across Genres

Podcast: Vikki Wakefield on the Craft of Writing Across Genres

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Vikki Wakefield talks to Cheryl about her path to publication and how she writes across genres, from YA to crime. Her latest novel, To the River, is out now.

About the author:

Vikki Wakefield writes fiction for adults and young adults. Her novels have been shortlisted for numerous awards. After You Were Gone, a psychological thriller, was her first novel for adults and was published in 2022 to much acclaim. To the River is her second psychological thriller for adults. Vikki lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

 

Buy a copy of To the River here.

Reviews

Q&A: Vikki Wakefield, Author of To the River

Review | Author Related

7 March 2024

Q&A: Vikki Wakefield, Author of To the River

    Class, Corruption, Love and Loyalty: Read an Extract from To the River by Vikki Wakefield

    Review | Extract

    5 March 2024

    Class, Corruption, Love and Loyalty: Read an Extract from To the River by Vikki Wakefield

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      Publisher details

      To the River
      Author
      Vikki Wakefield
      Publisher
      Text Publishing
      Genre
      Fiction
      Released
      27 February, 2024
      ISBN
      9781922790590

      Synopsis

      The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote caravan community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently made redundant from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected Sabine made her way back to the river—now, twelve years after the ‘Caravan Murders’, she has the time and the tenacity to corner a fugitive and land the story of the year.

      Rachel’s ambition lights the fuse leading to a brutal chain of events, and the web Sabine weaves will force Rachel to question everything she believes. Vikki Wakefield’s compelling psychological thriller is about class, corruption, love, loyalty, and the vindication of truth and justice. And a brave dog called Blue.

      Vikki Wakefield
      About the author

      Vikki Wakefield

      Vikki Wakefield's first Young Adult novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. Friday Brown was also an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia, in 2013. Among other awards, it was shortlisted for the prestigious Prime Minister's Awards, in 2013. Vikki lives in the Adelaide foothills with her family.

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