- Title:
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A Child's Book of True Crime
- Written by:
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Chloe Hooper
- Read by:
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Kate Hosking
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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6 hours 47 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2003
- Available Date:
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November 01 2003
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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1740945085
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740945080
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction; Mystery; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
Shortlisted Orange Prize for Fiction 2002
“Funny, edgy and sparky as sherbet, Hooper’s novel lingers in the mind with all the sweetness and menace of childhood itself.”
The Independent
“A striking, ambitious first novel...Hooper forces open her material so that it resonates beyond belief and she does this with...curiosity and instinctive grace.”
The New York Times Book Review
“Ironic, moving, full of keen perceptions and striking sentences...a tour de force.”
The Wall Street Journal
Chilling, erotic and rivetingly suspenseful, this novel marks the arrival of a powerful and startlingly original new voice.
In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted student. As the young teacher's sexual life is awakened by the father in scenes of escalating eroticism, the guilt she feels towards the son is compounded. Meanwhile, Veronica, her lover's wife, has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime book about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress some years before, set in a nearby town. Kate becomes fixated on the unsolved crime of passion that occurred years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present. Is it her imagination, or is someone stalking her? Is she caught playing a game where she no longer knows the rules? Has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress?