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Dead Ends

By: Samantha Byres

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Paperback | 1 July 2025

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304 Pages

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22.7 x 15.3 x 2.1

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A sexy, blackly comic mystery, where the impossibility of closure and a desire to fix the past collide.

All-round chaos merchant Nell Jenkins has returned to Aotearoa-New Zealand to fulfil family duties for the mother and brother she's barely seen since making her small-town escape as a teen. But her homecoming isn't the triumph it should be. She has nothing to show for her time in Sydney but a string of failed relationships, crappy jobs and an ongoing HR complaint against her ex-girlfriend, now former boss.

Settling right back into old habits, Nell finds herself sparking a relationship with her dead best friend's brother Mick, as well as the newly arrived and equally unreliable Katya, who is working for once-famous TV psychic Petronella Bush. Driven by her lust for Katya, an empty bank account and the need to come to terms with two life-defining deaths from her past, Nell is drawn deeper into Petronella's charismatic web.

Dead Ends is a beguiling, big-hearted portrait of love and loss, and the bad decisions we make in their wake.

About the Author

Samantha Byres is a writer from Whanganui, Aotearoa. She attended the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington and her work appears in- Turbine, JAAM, Sport and Out Here- An anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.

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