In Eleanor Limprecht’s gripping and emotionally charged novel, Jacquie must choose between the life she built and the freedom she and her children desperately need. As a picture-perfect American dream unravels into coercion and control, Cul-de-Sac is a tense, compassionate exploration of motherhood, survival and the extraordinary courage it takes to find the only way out.

Eleanor Limprecht is an author, constant reader and creative writing teacher. She was born and raised in the US, Germany and Pakistan but now lives in Sydney, Australia. Her first novel, What Was Left, came out in 2013 with Sleepers Publishing. Her second novel, Long Bay, was released in 2015, followed by The Passengers in 2018 and The Coast in 2022. She has had short fiction, book reviews, feature articles and essays published widely. Cul-de-Sac is her latest novel, coming from Ultimo Press in 2026.

Dr Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of eighteen books, including fiction, non-fiction and reference works. Her 2008 novel, The Household Guide to Dying, was published to acclaim in Australia and around the world, and was short- and long-listed for several literary awards, including the international Orange Prize (now the Women' s Prize) for Fiction. Her most recent books include Zebra, which won the short story category in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, The Innocent Reader: Reflections on reading and writing and When I Am Sixty-Four. She lives and writes on Bidjigal Country in Sydney' s inner west.

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