Estella is an evocative and mesmerising retelling of Great Expectations, shedding light on a little understood character in one of Dickens’s most beloved novels.”

Harlequin Publishers

Estella

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'A haunting and darkly beautiful retelling of Dicken's Great Expectations.'
Karen Brooks, author

The icily enigmatic anti-hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells her own story ... and changes the ending in this beguiling feminist take on a classic for readers of Pip Williams and Karen Brooks.

Reviews for Estella

  • "It takes great courage, skill and artistry, to broach the mastery of Dickens and lean into his superbly written worlds to create one’s own. And yet, award-winning author Kathy George has succeeded with deep sensitivity, respect and care, to offer up a retelling from one of Dickens's often misunderstood and overlooked characters."

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is a mesmerising Australian novel that echoes the great gothic stories of love and hate: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and especially Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

'So beautifully written, so skilfully plotted, such a masterpiece of tension and atmosphere.'

Australian Book Review

Reviews for Sargasso

  • "Dark, unsettling and utterly enthralling, Sargasso is a suspenseful page-turner that builds to an incredible and shocking end."

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  • "It is a poetic, atmospheric story of love and obsession and the blurred landscape between reality and imagination."

    Poppy Gee, author of Vanishing Falls

  • "Shades of du Maurier's Rebecca in this riveting, atmospheric mystery. Compelling."

    Téa Cooper, author of The Cartographer’s Secret

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Hello, welcome to my website. I am the author of Estella and Sargasso. I’ve always been drawn to tortured, complex and intense characters, my all-time favourite being Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. I write dark, mysterious and compelling stories and I write because it makes me happy. Most weekends you’ll find me by the sea…

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