With Winter Comes Darkness

Name: With Winter Comes Darkness
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Robbi Neal
ISBN: 9781460734858

Author: Robbi Neal

Narrator: Eva Seymour

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/01/2024

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Psychological, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

A terrible accident burns down a family's life on the same day a murder is committed. From the ashes of these acts comes revelation, darkness, and the truth. Psychological suspense and profound family drama meet in this heartrending and original Australian novel.
1975, Ballarat Alice is happy in her world and in return for her happiness the world is good to her. She has everything she needs - a lovely house and children, and a devoted husband. Even though her journalism job doesn't pay much, she doesn't have to worry about the bills. All is well with her world until a terrible accident rips a child from her, a profound betrayal is uncovered, and things fall apart.On the same day Alice's world collapses, a man is found brutally murdered on respected teacher Ellery's farm. Ellery can't remember what happened but there is blood on his clothes, and he is arrested.Neither Alice nor Ellery realise that their paths in life are about to intertwine and a desperate bargain is about to be made. A bargain that could save or destroy them in their quest to draw some light and fathom the darkness that surrounds them.

About Robbi Neal

Robbi Neal's first book SUNDAY BEST, a memoir was developed as part of the HarperCollins/Varuna awards program and published by HarperCollins in 2004. AFTER BEFORE TIME, which told stories of indigenous life in a remote community, was published in 2016. THE ART OF PRESERVING LOVE, a story that spanned 25 years from 1905 to 1930 was published in 2018 under the pen name Ada Langton. Robbi also paints and is currently working towards an exhibition scheduled for 2022 at Redot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore. She is a mama of five wonderful humans (you're welcome world). She has lived in country Victoria, Australia, for most of her life and lives only a few of blocks from where her novel THE SECRET WORLD OF CONNIE STARR (2022) is set. She loves to walk down Dawson Street past the church her grandfather preached in, the same church with the same columns that appear in in this book. When Robbi isn't writing, she is painting, or reading or hanging out with her family and friends, all of whom she adores. She loves procrasti-cooking, especially when thinking about the next chapter in her writing. She also loves cheese, any cheese, all cheese and lemon gin or dirty martinis, the blues, and more cheese.Photo Credit: Indea Leslie

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 12, 2025

With Winter Comes Darkness is an engrossing and emotionally-stirring read, set in the recent(ish) historical context of 1975-6 Ballarat, Australia. On one cataclysmic rainy night, the lives of two individuals are irrevocably changed by separate incidents. Print journalist Alice Ables' husband and two......more

Goodreads review by Eliza on May 02, 2024

I made an account just so I could review this book. It held onto me from the very start and gave me this amazing view into country life in 1975. The characters of Alice and Ellery felt like real people with real trauma and histories. I enjoyed that every character was given a sense of humanity. The......more

Goodreads review by Bec on April 24, 2024

With Winter Comes Darkness grabbed me from the first page and I kept me engaged the whole way through. I really enjoyed the separate stories of Alice and Ellery, and how they connected. Both Alice and Ellery had a lot to deal with, with Alice dealing with a major accident and the conequences of that......more

Goodreads review by Craig and Phil on May 29, 2024

Thank you Harlequin for sending us a copy to read and review. An emotional, powerful and interesting tale set in Ballarat in the 1970s. Two tragic events will tear the families apart and bring two people together. In 1975, Ballarat, Alice’s life is good. A job, a home and a family, everything is positiv......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on March 28, 2024

This is the story of two people whose lives are turned upside down. It was such a beautiful but heartbreaking read. Set in 1975, in the Ballarat township of Newington. I appreciated Neal’s research and you really got a feel for what it was like to live in a small town in the 1970s- the Vietnam wars......more