PENNY BATCHELOR - AUTHOR
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About the novel
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​A missing sister.

A bedroom kept as a shrine.

A dark family secret.

When Annie returns to care for her mother, she's faced with the ghosts from her past.

Long-held secrets surrounding her sister Gemma's disappearance in 1989 remain buried in her childhood house. Does a faded photograph in her sister's old room hold the key to the past? 

Desperate for clues, she delves deeper in search of the truth. But is it safer to be kept in the dark? Annie is about to find out ...

My Perfect Sister is a domestic noir thriller set in Yorkshire.
About the author
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​Penny Batchelor is an alumna of the Faber Academy online ‘Writing a Novel’ course.

She is a freelance journalist, a former BBC content producer and website editor for various educational institutions, and lives in Warwickshire with her husband. 

Her journalism has appeared in numerous publications including The Knitter, Vintage Life, Mollie Makes, Travel Africa, The Simple Things and Pretty Nostalgic magazines; and BBC Ouch!, money magpie.com,  welovethisbook.com and The University of Warwick's Knowledge Centre websites. 

She is the editor of her award-winning knitting blog A Woolly Yarn, which is now solely social-media based on Facebook and Instagram.

​My Perfect Sister is her first novel and she is currently writing a second.
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