“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
About the Book
'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
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"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."
Better Reading
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
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"Dark, unsettling and utterly enthralling, Sargasso is a suspenseful page-turner that builds to an incredible and shocking end."
Better Reading
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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
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"Shades of du Maurier's Rebecca in this riveting, atmospheric mystery. Compelling."
Téa Cooper, author of The Cartographer’s Secret
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…