The Dreaming
Résumé
Jeanie and Amber Malkin are new students at Greenwich Private College, a boarding school in North Sydney that lies on the edge of vast, virgin bushlands. The school has a hundred-year history and is run entirely by its vice principal, who has a strange prejudice against identical twins. In fact, she rejects all twins' applications to the school. The girls were only able to get in by saying that they are just regular sisters, born 11 months apart. After settling in and meeting new friends, the girls learn more about the school and its surrounding bushlands—which they are warned not to go into because, time and time again, young girls have wandered off into the bush and vanished without a trace. Few know how the girls disappeared...fewer yet know why. People lost in the bush don't simply die—they vanish, as if swallowed whole by the land. The twins soon discover the reason so many girls have disappeared...and why the vice principal is so against identical twins studying at the school.
