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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Torched
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'A small Yarra Valley town has been devastated by a bushfire, and Reefton Primary School principal Phoebe Warton can't sleep. She's the single mother of eighteen-year-old Caleb who is accused of starting the fire—on purpose. Phoebe will be forced to confront the nature of guilt and redemption, and decide what boundaries she is willing to cross to save the son she loves. Torched is an explosive, haunting and compelling crime novel about mothers and sons and the ties that bind them.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Seaforth, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pantera Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 360p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2020.
      ISBN: 9781925700589

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Kimberley Starr, Torched Louise Swinn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 May 2020;

— Review of Torched Kimberley Starr , 2020 single work novel

'With no time to recover from the recent fire season and the next one looming behind this pandemic, Torched, set in a Yarra Valley town devastated by bushfires, indisputably captures the spirit of the times.' (Introduction(

Ties That Bind : Three New Australian Crime Novels David Whish-Wilson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 421 2020; (p. 39-40)

— Review of The Long Shadow Anne Buist , 2020 single work novel ; Torched Kimberley Starr , 2020 single work novel ; In the Clearing Joshua Pomare , 2019 single work novel

'Some years ago, a crime-writing friend of mine was at a writer’s festival with Lee Child. After a few drinks, my friend asked Child how he’d gone about preparing to write his Jack Reacher novels. Child’s reply was something along the lines of not putting pen to paper before he’d spent six months reading all of the successful crime novels he could find, and before parsing out exactly what made them popular with readers. Once this was done, he sat down to write. The rest, of course, is history.' (Introduction)

Ties That Bind : Three New Australian Crime Novels David Whish-Wilson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 421 2020; (p. 39-40)

— Review of The Long Shadow Anne Buist , 2020 single work novel ; Torched Kimberley Starr , 2020 single work novel ; In the Clearing Joshua Pomare , 2019 single work novel

'Some years ago, a crime-writing friend of mine was at a writer’s festival with Lee Child. After a few drinks, my friend asked Child how he’d gone about preparing to write his Jack Reacher novels. Child’s reply was something along the lines of not putting pen to paper before he’d spent six months reading all of the successful crime novels he could find, and before parsing out exactly what made them popular with readers. Once this was done, he sat down to write. The rest, of course, is history.' (Introduction)

Kimberley Starr, Torched Louise Swinn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16-22 May 2020;

— Review of Torched Kimberley Starr , 2020 single work novel

'With no time to recover from the recent fire season and the next one looming behind this pandemic, Torched, set in a Yarra Valley town devastated by bushfires, indisputably captures the spirit of the times.' (Introduction(

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