The Drowning

With sales of over 16,000 copies of  Sweet Jimmy , Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice continues in this unflinching, gripping novel. 'A work of rattling and serpentine suspense … gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent Dalton The body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sleepy northern New South Wales town. David went for an evening swim and got into trouble . . . at least, that's what it looks like. Three weeks before, Leila, a young backpacker, didn't turn up