The Quakers

Conjectures have been made, events sewn together with needles of ignorance. Wrapped up in their blanket of gossip there are those who think they know the story, but I'm the only one left who really knows ...

On the day of the Newcastle earthquake a group of outsiders become friends and for the next fourteen years they will call themselves The Quakers. At the centre of this group is the beautiful Narinda, whose energy draws both men and women towards her, with fatal results. The Quakers is a compelling love story where friendship becomes obsession and addictions lead to murder.

The Quakers won the Adelaide Festival Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and was launched at Writers' Week in February 2008. The manu­script was also short-listed for the Varuna Writers' Centre Manuscript Development program and won the ArtsSA prize for Creative Writing.

Praise for The Quakers:
'Compelling, unusual and refreshingly readable.' - John Dale

'Hennessy's book sounds fascinating: the fictionalised life of her high-school classmate Anu Singh, who was later convicted of her boyfriend's manslaughter and became the subject of Helen Garner's Joe Cinque's Consolation.' - Susan Wyndham

Rachel Hennessy was born in Canberra, and has lived in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, London and Adelaide. She resides now in Melbourne with her partner and two young daughters.