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Review: Deep Water by Sarah Epstein

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Scan the YA fiction shelves at your nearest bookshop or library and here’s what you’ll see. Scores of books about lovelorn teens, brooding vampires and angsty anti-heroes pitted against alien invaders or rogue governments. There’s not a lot of mystery or suspense action going on.

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Review: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

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In the final pages of her debut book, author Sarah Epstein describes Small Spaces as a “creepy little novel”. And she’s absolutely right. But this YA novel from Melbourne-dweller Epstein isn’t just regular creepy; it’s hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck kind of creepy … and then some.

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