Night-night, Sleep Tight by outlet Burman, Paul NEUF

Meg Dapsys family home has been destroyed in an arson attack. Her mother is dead and her father is missing, but Stella, the younger sister shes always taken care of, has one secret too many... and it involves an old boyfriend.

With suspicion falling on a group of militant Animal Rights activists, Meg has no doubt where the blame really lies.

Night-night, Sleep Tight is a psychological thriller set against the backdrop of a vast, forested wilderness.

This is the third novel from Paul Burman, author of the surreal The Snowing and Greening of Thomas Passmore and the thriller The Grease Monkeys Tale.

Paul Burman was born in Northamptonshire, England, but emigrated to Australia with his wife and two children in 1989. He has worked a number of jobs - in shops, gardens, warehouses and factories - but spent many years teaching English, literature and drama to secondary school students before quitting to write, paint, grow fruit and vegetables, and occasionally make furniture. His novels, short stories, poems and articles have been published in Britain and Australia, and his plays have been performed both locally and further afield. He currently lives in Port Fairy on the south-west coast of Victoria.