SUZANNE LEAL is a lawyer experienced in child protection, criminal law and refugee law. A former legal commentator on ABC Radio, Suzanne is a regular interviewer at Sydney Writers' Festival and other literary functions. She has been a judge for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and for 'The Nib' Waverley Library Award for Literature. The Teacher's Secret is her second novel. www.suzanneleal.com
'Beautifully written, entirely absorbing, and full of characters
that live with you long after you finish reading, The Teacher's
Secret is packed with heart and suspense... This brilliant
book is a true page-turner, and I absolutely loved
it.'--Jenny Ashcroft, author of Beneath a Burning
Sky
'A delicately woven tapestry of interlinking stories... This is a
big-hearted book about a small community and how small acts of
kindness and courage, and the willingness to face the truth,
restore the human spirit to a sense of new
belonging.'--Joanne Fedler, author of Secret Mothers'
Business
'Elegantly structured, unsettling, yet with moments of surprising
wit - in this novel Suzanne Leal captures the life of a small
community with real tenderness.'--Kathryn Heyman, author of
The Accomplice
'Masterfully constructed, this moving novel warns us of our
capacity to make or break the lives of those around us... Drawn
with wit and clear-eyed affection, the inhabitants of this
wonderful novel will remain with you long after you have put it
down.'--Mark Lamprell, author of The Full
Ridiculous
'Leal's novel shows us, achingly and beautifully, the slippery
nature of truth and the destruction that is occasionally wrought
from good intensions.'--Maggie Joel, author of The
Safest Place in London
'A rich interweaving of beautifully drawn characters told so gently
and in such exquisite detail that they grew on me until I was lost
in their world.'--Robin de Crespigny, filmmaker and author
of The People Smuggler
'The Teacher's Secret is a gutsy yet intricate examination of one
of society's nightmares, filled with strong characters and
relationships interwoven in a storyline that has the reader
engrossed to the last page.'--Robert Wainwright, author of
Sheila
'Suzanne Leal writes with her hand on her heart, writing according
to its beat... translating the ordinary into the extraordinary. An
Australian talent, universally understood.'--Charles
Waterstreet, author of Precious Bodily Fluids: A Larrikin's
Memoir
'Suspenseful, moving and full of heart. I couldn't put it
down.'--Richard Glover, author of Flesh
Wounds
'An eloquent story of a life thrown into disarray; it drew me in
and held me, page after page.'--Rachel Seiffert, author of
The Dark Room
'Suzanne Leal is a writer of unusual sensitivity, with a rare
ability to shed light on the dark tangle of emotional attachments
which lies just below the surface of everyday life.'--John
Collee, acclaimed author and screenwriter
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