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Dr Isabelle Crawford has spent her career studying how the mind observes reality. Now reality has started observing her back. For three weeks, the Melbourne physicist has been dreaming of a wheat field that isn't there, of strangers she's never met, of a version of herself who knows things she doesn't.

When a graduate student vanishes on the night the dreams begin, Izzy tells herself it's coincidence. Then Detective Adrian Rivera makes contact. Rivera has been quietly working the same pattern for twenty years: gifted researchers, all studying the edge where quantum physics meets consciousness, all reporting the same vivid dreams — all gone. His own sister was the first.

Six people across thirty-six years, erased so cleanly the files barely exist. Izzy's family have a simpler explanation. Her father heard things too, saw conspiracies in the ordinary — until the night it turned violent. Her brother is already driving down from the Mallee, certain he knows how this ends. Her therapist is certain too. Everyone around her agrees: this is inheritance, not discovery. Breakdown, not breakthrough.

But someone is watching Izzy's apartment. Someone flagged Rivera's investigation the moment it moved. And the closer the two of them get to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell whether Izzy is losing her grip on reality — or seeing it clearly for the first time.

Set in a near-future Melbourne where the wrong perceptions can get you disappeared; A Quantum of Shadows is a psychological thriller about trauma, family, and the terrifying possibility that madness and revelation can look exactly the same.

For listeners who love Blake Crouch, Emily St. John Mandel and Charlotte Wood.

Quantum of Shadows, A

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