Set in the remote New Zealand bush, in the South Island. A young girl stumbles into a supermarket in a small town, desperately thirsty and hungry after days walking solo. She only speaks to say her name, Anya, but the locals are aware that she looks exactly like a girl who went missing years earlier…

A woman who grew up  in the bush with her younger siblings, cut off from civilisation, is forced to unpack the secrets of her childhood in the face of a double murder.

When Effie flies from Scotland back to New Zealand, everything changes as she takes on a child who looks eerily like her and the two of them reconsider everything they thought they knew. For readers of All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, The Vanishing Place is a stunningly emotional and cinematic book that will stay with you long after putting it down.

To be published by Moa Press, NZ on 26th August 2025 and Berkley Press, US, 26th August 2025.

Cover reveal coming soon.