Hayley Lawrence

Hayley Lawrence has been writing since she learned to hold a pencil. She is currently a lawyer in coastal NSW, where she lives with her five beautifully wild daughters.

Hayley’s work is haunted by the stories she encounters as a lawyer, through her daughters and in the incredible people who lay their souls bare to her.

Hayley’s novels have won fellowships and been shortlisted for the Vogel Literary Award. Her novels have also received critical acclaim with the Children’s Book Council of Australia, including an Honour Book Award in 2023.

Into the Wild

There are places in the world so remote that if you get lost, you may never be found.

Olive, Ted, Knox, Birdie and Silas enter a challenge to survive in the wild, without technology.

Working as a team, they must read maps, build fires, camp and trek through the most dangerous of terrain, in subzero temperatures.

But when the teenagers are split over a decision to climb a dangerous rock, disaster strikes. And in their quest for survival, one of them makes an unforgivable choice. With catastrophic consequences.

Nobody is blameless. And they may not all make it home. But those who do, may never forgive each other.

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