What's Inside?
A signed book - 'All You Took From Me’ by Lisa Kenway.
A candle - Peppermint Gum - Feel transported into the beautiful blue mountains with the invigorating native scent of peppermint and eucalyptus.
An alcoholic beverage - Hillbilly Apple Cider - Recommended by Lisa, this family owned cidery in the Blue Mountains is a delicious pairing to enjoy chilled or if you prefer something warm and cosy, try mulling it!
or a non-alcoholic beverage - Hillbilly Non-Alcoholic Apple Cider - Recommended by Lisa, this family owned cidery in the Blue Mountains is a delicious pairing to enjoy chilled or if you prefer something warm and cosy, try mulling it!
A bookmark - Embedded with Nodding Saltbush seeds, simply sow just below the surface and enjoy edible berries in the summertime.
A surprise - Winnow Spiced Chocolate - A family owned business based in the Blue Mountains, this treat is a delicious pairing and is the perfect blend of spices, delicious dried blueberries and cranberries all mixed into organic dark chocolate.
About the book...
Set between the Blue Mountains and a Sydney hospital, Lisa Kenway’s All You Took from Me is a thriller brimming with great characters and nail-biting tension.
Anaesthetist Clare Carpenter has just lost her husband and her memory in a single-vehicle accident. So why is a stranger following her? After questioning patients about their dreams, she becomes convinced that an anaesthetic drug might help her access missing memories. But there’s no way to be certain without jeopardising her career or her life.
As unexplained threats escalate, Clare realises she must take matters into her own hands to learn the uncomfortable truth about her secretive husband, his connection to a mysterious club and what she did to trigger a stranger’s crusade for vengeance. But how far will she go?
About the author...
Lisa Kenway is an Australian writer and anaesthetist, and her debut novel was inspired by her longstanding fascination with memory and consciousness.
An earlier version of All You Took From Me was listed for the 2020 Richell Prize and was runner-up in the 2022 CYA conference competition (stories for adults).
Lisa was awarded a Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre fellowship for 2023 and was highly commended in the 2022 Writing NSW Varuna fellowships.
Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including Island Online, the Meanjin blog and Meniscus Literary Journal.
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