Margot McGovern
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Margot McGovern lives in Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of This Stays Between Us and Neverland, and has a creative writing PhD from Flinders University. Her work has been shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. You can find Margot on Instagram: @margot.mcgovern
Books by Margot McGovern
** WINNER of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award John Marsden Prize for Young Adults **
Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat.
A thrilling modern gothic tale of control and manipulation that will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned. Margot McGovern is fast becoming a name to watch in the horror genre.
‘Darkly haunting, Our Dark Unravelling is a perfect blend of gothic, dark academia and horror, where the ghosts of the past become entangled with the complexity of grief.’
Lyndall Clipstone, critically acclaimed author of Tenderly, I am Devoured
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