Where We Begin

Author(s): Christie Nieman

Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some secrets - once laid bare - can never be forgiven. A dark, deeply compelling, coming-of-age YA novel from the author of As Stars Fall.


Product Information

Shortlisted for the Children's Books Council of Australia's Book of the year: Older Readers 2021

Shortlisted NSW Premier's Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature 2021

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premiere's Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the VIC Premier’s Writing for Young Adults Award 2021

Winner of the YA Truce Crime Davitt Awards 2021

General Fields

  • : 9781743535660
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia
  • : Pan Australia
  • : 0.3
  • : June 2020
  • : {"length"=>["19.8"], "width"=>["12.9"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Christie Nieman
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.4
  • : 368
  • : YFB