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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Making of Christina
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'Interior designer Christina Clemente is caught off guard by an intense affair with her charismatic client, Jackson Plummer. He quickly becomes the cure to Christina's loneliness and a surrogate father to her young daughter Bianca.

'When Jackson suggests moving to a rundown farm in the mountains, Christina soon forgets her initial hesitation and absorbs herself in restoring the rambling century-old house, Bartholemews Run, becoming obsessed with solving its mysterious history.

'But while living on the isolated farm, her once effervescent child transforms into a quiet sullen teenager and Christina increasingly struggles to connect with her.

'Because Bianca has a secret.

'And the monstrous truth threatens to destroy them all.' (Publication Summary)

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Home Fires and Flights of Fancy Thuy On , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)

'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)

Meredith Jaffe : The Making of Christina. Sally Nimon , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2017;

'The Making of Christina asks how well we know the people we love and if we can pay the price of truth.

'The Making of Christina is not a light read. Its subject matter is trauma, guilt and deceit. The result is neither pretty nor soothing, but this is not its intent. Rather, Christina is about facing the most unpleasant aspects of human nature head-on, with or without a crash helmet, and learning that you can survive. This book will not, therefore, be to everyone’s taste. But the reading can be cathartic for those prepared to brave its depths.' (Introduction)

Meredith Jaffe : The Making of Christina. Sally Nimon , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2017;

'The Making of Christina asks how well we know the people we love and if we can pay the price of truth.

'The Making of Christina is not a light read. Its subject matter is trauma, guilt and deceit. The result is neither pretty nor soothing, but this is not its intent. Rather, Christina is about facing the most unpleasant aspects of human nature head-on, with or without a crash helmet, and learning that you can survive. This book will not, therefore, be to everyone’s taste. But the reading can be cathartic for those prepared to brave its depths.' (Introduction)

Home Fires and Flights of Fancy Thuy On , 2017 single work review essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)

'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)

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