What is the mystery of On the Jellicoe Road?

Taylor Markam is 11 when her mother abandons her at a 7-Eleven convenience store. Moments later, a woman named Hannah appears and takes Taylor under her wing. She enrolls Taylor in Jellicoe School, a prestigious boarding school on the outskirts of Jellicoe Town, Australia. A couple of years later, Taylor, unable to shake off her mother’s rejection and unable to fight the demons of her past, tries to escape from the school with a boy named Jonah Griggs. The two, however, are caught and sent back to school. Three more years pass. Taylor and Hannah meet often. Taylor discovers that Hannah is writing a story set in the 1980s about students of Jellicoe school. But then, mysteriously, Hannah goes missing. Taylor and Jonah go looking for her and stumble upon Taylor’s past, Hannah’s connection with her parents and the truth about why Taylor’s mother abandoned her.

 

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