Sherry Sharples

Sherry Sharples had big plans for her school holidays.

Plans involving skating with her best friend, freedom, and time away from the awkwardness of two separate families. Instead, she is handed over to her father without warning, case first through a slammed door.

His small suburban house is already bursting. Twin toddlers who never stop shrieking. A stepmother so heavily pregnant she barely glances up. An old grandfather who watches everything from his high-backed chair and says very little.

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