Anna Snoekstra is an internationally best selling author.
She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where she writes from an old football factory in the backstreets of Thornbury.
Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for many literary magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald, Crime Reads and The Griffith Review. She is also a profile writer for The Saturday Paper.
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. She has had video work exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria and has written audio novellas This Isn’t Happening and the forthcoming The End of The Ski Season.
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?