Before the Beginning Tour

Hachette Australia together with the #AusYABloggers are celebrating the release of Before the Beginning by Australian author Anna Morgan. On the tour you'll find Australian Reviewers and Instagrammers sharing their thoughts.

About The Book

Before the Beginning
Written by Anna Morgan
Published by Hachette Australia
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The story of four friends, a mysterious stranger, and the week when everything changed. For fans of We Were Liars.

Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. It's a week when anything is possible, and everything can change.

Grace is questioning everything she thought about herself, and has opted not to join her clique of judgemental friends for schoolies, instead tagging along with her brother Casper and his friends. Casper, an artist, is trying to create the perfect artwork for his uni application folio. Overachieving, anxiety-ridden Noah is reeling from a catastrophe that might have ruined his ATAR result. And Elsie is just trying to figure out how to hold their friendship group together.

On the first night of the trip, they meet Sierra, a mysterious girl with silver-grey hair and a magnetic personality. All of them are drawn to her for different reasons, and she persuades them to abandon the cliched schoolies experience in favour of camping with her on a remote, uninhabited island. On that island, each of them will find answers to their questions. But what does Sierra want from them?

An empathetic and suspenseful coming-of-age story from the author of All That Impossible Space.

Tour Schedule

Monday 26th October livs.hideout_ bookscandlescats chloes.readingcorner Maes Bookshelf bookish.intoxication	Tuesday 27th October _acourtofbooksandreviews_ bookgirlbetweenthepages meegreads Zany Bibliophile milliereadsbooks_x	Wednesday 28th October exclusively_bookish sentrancedbookworm caity.reads cosmic.pages Confessions of a Readaholic
Thursday 29th October Cait is Booked shelle_reads_books SarahSays wholesimreads Simply Ally Tea	Friday 30th October tamjreads thebibliophilebuddies Live with Books Gilly Reads Brooklyn the Bookworm

About The Author

Anna was born in Sydney, but spent most of her childhood surrounded by mountains in Nepal and Tibet while her parents were part of an international community of health professionals. Navigating this cross-cultural life made her a curious observer of people, although most of her time was spent reading Enid Blyton and dreaming of going to boarding school. This did not cushion the shock of shifting from home-school in Tibet to an all-girls high school in Melbourne when her family returned to Australia. Anna completed a MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University in 2015, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband. She works as a bookseller.

You can find Anna on Twitter  ·  Instagram  ·  Goodreads