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A gripping new legal thriller from a beloved Australian author, perfect for fans of The Murder Rule and Prima Facie. New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm. She's too quiet.She wears too much makeup.She’s only here because the boss has...
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A gripping new legal thriller from a beloved Australian author, perfect for fans of The Murder Rule and Prima Facie.
New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm.
She's too quiet.
She wears too much makeup.
She’s only here because the boss has a thing for Asians.
But Fei isn’t here to climb the corporate ladder – she’s here for revenge. Thirty years ago, three schoolgirls were kidnapped and abused by a man who’s never been identified. The information Fei needs to find him is buried somewhere in the firm’s records.
Deliberately placing herself in harm’s way, Fei will uncover a secret history of power and privilege that haunts not only her firm, but the nation itself. Taut, riveting and blackly humorous, The Graduate is a mesmerising legal thriller and a masterfully dark crime debut from a beloved Australian writer.
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ISBN: 9781923293786
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 April 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Press
DIMENSIONS
Width: 3886.0mm
Height: 5944.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Rebecca Lim is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer, and the author of over twenty books, including Tiger Daughter (a Kirkus, Amazon and Booklist Best Book, CBCA Book of the Year, and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award-winner), Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky (NSW History Award-winner) and the bestselling Mercy. Her work has been twice shortlisted for the NSW Literary Awards and Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and ARA Historical Novel Prize, shortlisted multiple times for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Aurealis Awards and Davitt Awards, longlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award and the Tasmanian Literary Awards, and has been optioned for film.
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