Beware of Dogs, Elizabeth Flann
Beware of Dogs, Elizabeth Flann
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Beware of Dogs

Author: Elizabeth Flann

Narrator: Nicole Gulasekharam

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/21/2022


Synopsis

Winner of the 2019 Banjo Prize for FictionShe's isolated. Trapped. Hunted. An almost unbearably tense Australian survival thriller.
Not much daylight left now.So begins the field diary of Alix Verhoeven, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding in a tiny cave, she carefully rations out her meagre supplies, while desperately trying to figure out how to escape the men hunting her. She is determined not to be a victim.What do they want with her? She knows it's nothing good - she overheard enough on that first night to flee. But now she's got little food or water, no way of calling for help, and only her skills as an exploration geologist and memories of Atkinson's Bushcraft Guide to survive.By day she is disciplined and lives by strict plans, but at night she finds herself haunted by questions about her life that she has never wanted to face.And her time is running out.

About Elizabeth Flann

Elizabeth worked for over twenty years in the publishing industry before moving into tertiary education to teach editing, scriptwriting and literature to postgraduate students. She is the co-author of The Australian Editing Handbook, and completed a PhD in 2001 entitled Celluloid Dreaming: Cultural Myths and Landscape in Australian Film 1970-1990. Now retired from teaching, she is able to give full rein to her true love: writing fiction. This is her first novel. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on September 23, 2021

Accepting an offer to spend Easter on a remote Island will turn out to be the most terrifying experience of Alix Verhoeven’s life. This story is mainly told in field dairy form as we follow Alix hiding out in a small cave away from the men who are hunting her. With little food or water, Alix is desp......more

Goodreads review by Suz on July 11, 2021

Another audio read, of which I am barrelling through a lot lately. A kidnapping story, taking place on a fictional Australian coastline on an island. Very content heavy on botanical information, the author must have a very comprehensive knowledge of the flora in the Australian landscape. This was in......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on August 23, 2020

Not quite the ‘claustrophobic survival horror’ the back of the book promised me. It was rather slow, with many, many flashbacks. Most of the book was taken up with the main characters inner monologue/diary entries in which she lamented her situation often and we as readers got to be there for such m......more

Goodreads review by Renee on December 03, 2020

Alix, although not too happily, accepts an offer from an old neighbour, Dave, to go away for Easter. Dave deliberately tells her nothing of where they are going and Alix finds herself on a island with Dave, his creepy mate Matt and Matt's girlfriend Lana. From here the tale turns into one of surviva......more

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com *www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr **4.5 stars** Beware of Dogs by Elizabeth Flann. (2021). Not much daylight left now... So begins the field diary of Alix, whose impulsive acceptance of an offer to spend Easter on a remote island has turned into a terrifying ordeal. Hiding......more