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In the blink of an eye

In the Blink of an Eye is award-winning author Jesse Blackadder's deeply emotional drama that explores a family's path to forgiveness and redemption in the aftermath of a tragedy. The Brennans, parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby, have made a sea change, from chilly...

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Main Author: Blackadder, Jesse (Author)
Other Authors: Blackadder, Jesse. Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Life change events > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Children > Death > Fiction.
New South Wales > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Summary: In the Blink of an Eye is award-winning author Jesse Blackadder's deeply emotional drama that explores a family's path to forgiveness and redemption in the aftermath of a tragedy. The Brennans, parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby, have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart, Tasmania, to subtropical Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school, and life in a sprawling purple clapboard house, when one morning, tragedy strikes. In the devastating aftermath, the questions fly. What really happened? And who's to blame? Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah, his innocence lost, faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain. In the Blink of an Eye is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.
Physical Description: viii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781250199959
1250199956
Author Notes: Jesse Blackadder was an Australian author, screenwriter, public speaker, and journalist. She was born in June 1964. She earned a BA in Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. She has a Master of applied Science in Social Ecology and a Doctor of Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.

She is best known for her adult fiction, After the Party, The Raven's Heart, Chasing the Light, In the Blink of an Eye (published as, Sixty Seconds, in Australia). Her novels for children include, Stay The Last Dog in Antarctica, Paruka The Desert Brumby, and Dexter The Courageous Koala. She was the co-writer, along with Laura Bloom, of Dream Riders Book one: Frankie and Dream Riders Book two: Storm. Her novel, The Raven's Heart, won the Benjamin Franklin House annual literary prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society awards in 2013.

She won the Guy Morrison Prize for Literary Journalism for her essay, The First Woman and the Last Dog in Antarctica. Her work has been published in Australia Geographic, Womankind, Outback, Wellbeing, Goodreading, and other journals.

She died on June 10, 2020 in New South Wales at the age of 58.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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