Miracle

Reviews

  • “…Miracle by Jennifer Lane, a crime thriller that has a wicked sense of humour and totally engaging characters…comes highly recommended…”

    Neil Johnstone, Wellington Libraries

  • “The plot twists are great, and, unusually, I didn’t pick them all. I was really gripped by this book — I honestly couldn’t put this down and finished it at 2 a.m.” 

    Ceridwyn Roberts, The Sapling

  • “As with her first novel, All Our Secrets, in Miracle, Jennifer Lane gives us great mystery storytelling.”

     Alyson Baker, Nelson Libraries

  • Catherine Robertson, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Radio NZ (starts approx. 6 mins in)

  • “A brave, conflicted, complicated young girl, Miracle’s believable and really real.”

    Karen Chisholm, AustCrimeFiction

  • "The resulting novel is great fun – a fabulous combination of believable small-town intrigue a twisty-turny plot."

    Neil Johnstone, Wellington Libraries

Articles

  • “The celebrations began with Jennifer Lane, who grew up in New South Wales rural village Cambewarra, making history as the winner of Best Kids/YA Book for Miracle, which stars an Aussie teen trying to deal with devastating events and clear her father’s name after he’s arrested for a brutal attack. The judges praised Miracle as ‘poignant and funny, with a complex storyline and memorable, well-developed characters including a fascinating heroine with her authentic adolescent voice’.

    By winning her second Ngaio Marsh Award, Lane joins a rare group of Kiwi storytellers, alongside Paul Cleave, Jacqueline Bublitz, and Michael Bennett, to have multiple Ngaios.”

    Craig Sisterson, Winning Crime, Good Reading (October 2024)

Panel discussion

Interview

All Our Secrets

“The novel’s real achievement, I think, is in the loving depiction of family life in this place and at this time: rissoles with tomato sauce; toddlers with snotty noses; Mum taking time for herself with a glass of cask wine and the New Idea crossword; chain-smoking; dry-grassed front lawns; town gossip; kids’ talk at school; sibling relationships. Coongahoola and Gracie’s family home are rich, warm, alive places in Lane’s rendering.”

— HOLLY WALKER, LANDFALL REVIEW, ALL OUR SECRETS

Image: Penelope Todd

Image by Penelope Todd

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