The Girl Below

Description

After ten years in New Zealand, Suki returns to London, to a city that won't let her in. However, a chance visit with Peggy - an old family friend who still lives in the building where she grew up - convinces Suki that there is a way to reconnect with the life she left behind a decade earlier. But the more involved she becomes with Peggy's dysfunctional family, including Peggy's wayward sixteen-year-old grandson, the more Suki finds herself mysteriously slipping back in time - to the night of a party her parents threw in their garden more than twenty years ago, when something happened in an old, long-unused air-raid shelter...

Author description

British-born Bianca Zander has lived in Auckland, New Zealand, for the past two decades. An established journalist, she has written for numerous publications, including The Listener, the Sunday Star-Times, and the Dominion Post. She has produced radio shows and written for film and television, including writing the dramatic short film The Handover, which screened in competition at the Chicago Film Festival. Bianca holds an M.A. in creative writing from Victoria University, Wellington. The Girl Below is her first novel.