The Convent

10 best books like The Convent (Maureen McCarthy): A Single Thread, The Nowhere Child, Call Me Evie, The Scholar, Whisper, After the Lights Go Out, Vatican Waltz, The Place on Dalhousie, After the Party, The Art of Growing Up

A Single Thread
AuthorTracy Chevalier
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
The Nowhere Child
AuthorChristian White
ISBN1925584526
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity…

Kimberly Leamy...
Call Me Evie
AuthorJ.P. Pomare
In this propulsive, twist-filled, and haunting psychological suspense debut perfect for fans of Sharp Objects and Room, a seventeen-year-old girl struggles to remember the role she played on the night her life changed forever.

For the past two weeks, seventeen-year-old Kate Bennet has...
The Scholar
AuthorDervla McTiernan
ISBN0751569348
When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID, that of Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland’s most...
Whisper
AuthorLynette Noni
ISBN1525300415
“Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,” they told me.

I believed them. That was my mistake.

There isn’t anyone else in the world like me.

I’m different. I’m an anomaly. I’m a monster.

For two years, six months, fourteen...
AuthorLili Wilkinson
ISBN1760297291
What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? How much do you have to sacrifice?
'After the Lights Go Out is a terrifying yet hope-filled story of disaster, deceit, love, sacrifice and survival.' - Fleur Ferris

Seventeen-year-old...
AuthorRoland Merullo
ISBN0307452956
This book is for those who want a journey of the soul.
What were your feelings about God, the Divine, your own soul when
you were growing up? Did you go to the church of your parents?
Being in that building, where your family said their prayers, did
it inspire you also?
This book is about...
The Place on Dalhousie
AuthorMelina Marchetta
ISBN0143793535
'You look the type to break your father’s heart.'
'Yeah, but he broke mine first.’

When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed....
After the Party
AuthorCassie Hamer
'After The Party forces the reader to confront uncomfortable questions like, How far would you go to protect a child? How clear is the line between right and wrong? And, what does it truly mean to be a good mother?' - Mamamia

Be careful what you wish for...

Lisa Wheeldon has a lovely life....
The Art of Growing Up
AuthorJohn Marsden
ISBN1760787426
From the award-winning and bestselling author of the Tomorrow series.

When I hear parents say 'I want my children to enjoy their childhood; there'll be time when they're older to learn about those things', I hear the voices of those who are scared of the vastness of the universe. These adults...
The 117-Story Treehouse: Dots, Plots & Daring Escapes!
AuthorAndy Griffiths
ISBN1250317207
New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 117-Story Treehouse--the ninth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor!

Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse....
The Weekend
AuthorCharlotte Wood
Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize and Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction for THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS Charlotte Wood's THE WEEKEND, in which three friends in their 70s gather for a last weekend at the former holiday home of a mutual friend who has recently died, where they confront betrayals that...
The Lying Room
AuthorNicci French
ISBN0062676725
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him...
The Bridge
AuthorEnza Gandolfo
Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind he’d imagined as a child, draped with white sheets, with the ability to walk through walls, but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart, in your memories, the kind that came to you in dreams, that you could see when you closed...
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