Clare Sambrook is a novelist, freelance journalist and a founder of the citizens' campaign End Child Detention Now. Hide & Seek is her first novel.
'Sambrook creates a symphony with one small instrument.' Sydney Morning Herald 'In this there are echoes of Ian McEwan's A Child in Time, but Hide and Seek touches lightly on a number of reference points. It wears its politics lightly too, so that the effect is both a complex and detailed interior life and a social world that scarcely cares to notice the damage.' Age 'This is a great book, a brilliantly written account of what happens to a family after a child goes missing, as seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old...His voice is so thoroughly convincing your own inner nine-year-old comes back to read with you. The result is heartbreaking and funny...wonderful.' Herald Sun 'This is a well-crafted, sometimes surreal exploration of loss, grief and slow recovery.' Financial Times Magazine 'This is painful, compelling yet soetimes humorous book...a vivid and brave attempt to bring life to a deeply unsettling subject.' Literary Review UK 'Compelling' Kirkus Reviews 'Hide & Seek doesn't traffic either in cheap thrills or in fashionable literary effects. By resisting these powerful temptations...Sambrook shows she's a writer who can be trusted.' New York Times
'Sambrook creates a symphony with one small instrument.' Sydney Morning Herald 'In this there are echoes of Ian McEwan's A Child in Time, but Hide and Seek touches lightly on a number of reference points. It wears its politics lightly too, so that the effect is both a complex and detailed interior life and a social world that scarcely cares to notice the damage.' Age 'This is a great book, a brilliantly written account of what happens to a family after a child goes missing, as seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old...His voice is so thoroughly convincing your own inner nine-year-old comes back to read with you. The result is heartbreaking and funny...wonderful.' Herald Sun 'This is a well-crafted, sometimes surreal exploration of loss, grief and slow recovery.' Financial Times Magazine 'This is painful, compelling yet soetimes humorous book...a vivid and brave attempt to bring life to a deeply unsettling subject.' Literary Review UK 'Compelling' Kirkus Reviews 'Hide & Seek doesn't traffic either in cheap thrills or in fashionable literary effects. By resisting these powerful temptations...Sambrook shows she's a writer who can be trusted.' New York Times
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