A stunning, scary, and beautiful book.' John Marsden 'Disturbing, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist - almost Winner of the Branford Boase Award 'Complicated and beautiful - this novel left me doubting my emotions and missing a place I'd never been.' Maggie Stiefvater 'All the tension of lightning, all the terror of thunder. S wedish writer Ann-Helén Laestadius’s first fiction for adults opens in a wintry Scandinavian forest as a knife-wielding figure hacks away at a reindeer calf. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype - he's young and attractive.

And hot.' These are Gemmas first impressions of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia where my novel, Stolen, is set.

LUCY CHRISTOPHERS novel STOLEN was named a Printz Honor Book by the ALA and received. Printz Award 'An emotionally raw thriller.a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships. 2011 Printz Honor Speech Lucy Christopher 1 Printz Honor Speech Lucy Christopher 'The sunlight hit me immediately. Sixteen year old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. Booklist, review, Ma'Christophers first novel is a complex psychological study that is also a tribute to the hypnotic beauty of the outback. Buy Stolen by Lucy Christopher for 20.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to.

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