The Gaps

Based on true events, this compelling YA novel by award-winning Melbourne author Leanne Hall examines grief and guilt in the aftermath of a community tragedy

When sixteen-year-old Yin Mitchell is abducted, the news reverberates through the whole Year Ten class at Balmoral Ladies College. As the hours tick by, the girls know the chance of Yin being found alive is becoming smaller and smaller.

Everyone is affected by Yin's disappearance-even scholarship student Chloe, who usually stays out of Balmoral dramas, is drawn into the maelstrom. And when she begins to form an uneasy alliance with Natalia, the queen of Year Ten, things get even more complicated.

A tribute to friendship in all its guises, The Gaps is a moving examination of vulnerability and strength, safety and danger, and the particular uncertainties young women face in the world.

About the Author

Leanne Hall is an experienced integrative psychologist with a focus on prevention, self care and sustainable health. She specialises in body image and weight issues, depression, anxiety and eating disorders.

Leanne has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sydney and a lecturer and senior tutor at the School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales.

A qualified personal trainer and nutrition coach, she has a genuine belief that mind and body are interconnected, and is committed to motivating her patients, to achieve a lifestyle that is healthy in both mind and body.

A TV presenter, she has been the Mind and Body expert for Channel 10’s The Living Room and regularly appears on Studio 10 as their go to Health Expert. Leanne writes monthly for Open Colleges and has appeared on various programs including as the body image consultant on makeover show Style Squad for E Channel.