Come Back to Me

Do you have to honour a promise you made in the past, if it means losing all that you have now?

Do you have to honour a promise you made in the past
if it means losing all that you have now?

When Mark introduces his date, Julia, to Chloe and her husband at a London restaurant, it’s obvious something is very, very wrong. Alex and Julia pretend not to know each other, but the shocked expressions on their faces tell another story.

As the mystery of Julia’s identity unravels, a terrible tragedy from ten years ago gradually comes to light. While Chloe struggles with a secret of her own, Alex has to decide whether he should take Julia back to Australia to try to lay the past to rest, when doing so will risk all he has with the wife he loves.

And Julia must decide whether to finally confront Alex with the whole truth about what happened back then.

Set in London and Perth, Come Back to Me is a taut psychological drama that will keep you enthralled until the very last page.

‘a stunning thriller and complex love story.’
BORDER MAIL

Come Back to Me: the idea for the story

The story began with a tiny article in The West Australian newspaper, which I came across when I was travelling through Perth for the first time, not yet knowing I would one day live here! The article struck me because it was just a few lines detailing an event that would be life-changing for those involved. I wondered how their lives would ever move on, and the idea grew from there. Another theme of the book was my desire to push into whether there could ever be such a thing as an understandable love triangle, and the book also addresses the long-term effects of trauma.

Come Back to Me: the publishing story

Come Back to Me was my first published novel, with Random House in 2010. I spent four years writing it and revised it for over a year with my agent before we sent it to publishers. I was very lucky in that more than one publisher bid the same money for the book, so I got to go to Sydney and meet everyone then I had to decide which publisher was right for me - not an easy decision as they were both great. When it was published, the novel made top ten list for Australian fiction.

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