The Drowning is set on the south-west coast of Victoria. My youngest son worked down there for three months as a junior doctor and when we visited I had the idea for the book but had not decided on the setting. That trip gave it to me in spades, including the freezing cold house he was living in.  The area is beautiful and the people are lovely -- my characters are utterly fictitious. 

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