It doesn’t help matters when Tash feels an undeniable attraction to Mallory’s older brother, Morgan. Things get worse when the Fisher family, having left for some years after the traumatic incident with their daughter Mallory, return to the town. But as an older teenager, Tash is suddenly revisited by her shadowy, nightmarish counterpart, Sparrow, who appears to her in the darkness of night and speaks to her like a voice in her head. Mallory never spoke again.īack then no one believed Tash’s story about her imaginary friend and a series of child psychiatrists soothed the frightened girl by convincing her that ‘Sparrow’ simply didn’t exist. One week later, Mallory was found over 40 kilometres away from where she was last spotted.
The story follows Tash Carmody, a neurotic claustrophobic who is haunted by an incident that happened many years earlier when her imaginary friend Sparrow lured young Mallory Fisher away from a local carnival. Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein is a psychological thriller that holds no punches and addresses important aspects of adolescent mental health in a way that’s both insightful and sensitive without being twee.
‘We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of.
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