$32.40
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2025
Summary
Dead Ends: A Darkly Comic Mystery of Love, Loss, and Bad Decisions
All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins returns to her small hometown to fulfil family duties, a far cry from the triumph she envisioned after escaping as a teen. Sydney left her with nothing but failed relationships and an HR complaint against her ex-girlfriend.
Falling back into old habits, Nell sparks relationships with her dead best friend’s brother, Mick, and the unreliable Katya, who works for the once-fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780702269110 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0702269115 |
| Author: | Samantha Byres |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
| Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 153mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
‘It’s mordant and wryly observed. Byres has an easy feel for the claustrophobia of family life and dusty friendships: she knows what it is to be dragged back to the past by your ankles. For all Nell’s horror of finding herself back where she started, Dead Ends is an enormously propulsive novel.’
Jennifer Down
‘Samantha Byres’s Dead Ends is a perfectly imperfect story about all the ways the ones we love mess us up. This is a queer, dark, funny and somehow ultimately life-affirming story about what all those missing girls leave behind. I devoured it.’
Hayley Scrivenor
‘Byres is a red-hot new voice in contemporary noir. Her prowling prose is so muscular that every line takes a shot at the title. Dead Ends is a must for anyone who loves black wit, a dark, twisty tale, and a thrillingly flawed protagonist.’
Jenny Valentish
‘Dead Ends is immediately gripping: bold, moving and seductively dark. A scorching debut that I devoured.’
Emily O’Grady
About The Author
Samantha Byres
Samantha Byres is a writer from Whanganui, Aotearoa. She attended the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington and her work appears in Turbine, JAAM, Sport and Out Here - An anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
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