Anna Snoekstra is an award winning author and screenwriter.
She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football factory in the backstreets of Thornbury.
She is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Lindsay, The Sydney Morning Herald, LitHub, The Griffith Review and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper.
In 2022 she released the critically acclaimed Out of Breath and in 2023 she released her first audio drama This Isn’t Happening. Her next novel The Ones We Love will be released in 2025 with Dutton (Penguin Random House) in North America and Ultimo Press in Australia.
Anna is represented by Stephanie Rostan at LGR Literary and Jon Cassir at CAA.
The Ones We Love
Meet the Jansen family:
Since the weekend of the party – the one twenty-two year old Liv can’t remember, the one that left her covered in bruises – she’s been locked out of her bedroom by a padlock. Her parents are behaving oddly and her best friend won’t respond to her texts. Maybe she really was out of control that night.
The guilt is getting to her father, Janus. He brought his family from Australia to L.A. to chase his dream of seeing his novel on the big screen, and he can’t let them down. Not again. But he’s not sure he can do what is necessary to keep this secret hidden.
Kay gave up everything when she had kids. So now she’ll do whatever she has to do to take care of them. Her marriage, though, is a different story. And the neighbors – well, she’ll just have to be more careful.
Youngest son Casper was away that weekend, but he knows something isn’t right. His parents don’t look each other in the eye anymore. His father’s hands tremble for no reason. And where does Liv keep disappearing to in the middle of the night? Casper decides to find out what no one will tell him about that weekend. What lies behind the padlocked door?