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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 The Mother Fault
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'You will not recognise me, she thinks, when I find you . . .

'Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him – especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them ‘safe’.

'But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable – her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.

'Cornered, Mim risks everything to go on the run to find her husband – and a part of herself, long gone, that is brave enough to tackle the journey ahead.

'From the stark backroads of the Australian outback to a terrifying sea voyage, Mim is forced to shuck off who she was – mother, daughter, wife, sister – and become the woman she needs to be to save her family and herself.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2 September 2020.
      ISBN: 9781760854478
    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2023 .
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      Extent: 336p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 5 July 2023

      ISBN: 9781760859848
Form: audiobook
    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 .
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      Extent: 9 hours and 38 minutesp.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2, 2020
      ISBN: 9781760854492

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Keen Insights into Human Character Ed Wright , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 February 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel ; Either Side of Midnight Benjamin Stevenson , 2020 single work novel
y separately published work icon At Home with Kate Mildenhall Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23454171 2020 single work podcast interview

'Kate Mildenhall tackles the big questions. In this interview she considers how to write about our rapidly changing world (including about climate change and online surveillance), the role of writers in this time of crisis, and whether or not there could be a sequel to her dystopian literary thriller.

'Kate is a writer, teacher, and the mind behind the novels Skylarking and the utterly brilliant The Mother Fault.

'Kate mentions her mentor Charlotte Wood and her phenomenal work The Natural Way of Things.' (Production introduction)

 

Kate Grenville, Sofie Laguna, Julia Baird and Others : The 20 Best Australian Books of 2020 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 December 2020;
A Nowhere Space : Kate Mildenhall’s Urgent New Dystopian Novel Amy Baillieu , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel

'Kate Mildenhall’s confronting new novel, The Mother Fault, is set in an alarming near-future Australia. Climate change has left refugees ‘marking trails like new currents on the maps as they swarm to higher, cooler ground’. Sea levels have risen, species have died out, farmlands have been contaminated, and meat is a luxury. Unprecedented bushfires occur regularly; technology and surveillance are ubiquitous, with bulbous cameras hanging ‘like oddly uniform fruit bats from the streetlights’. The media is controlled, and Australian citizens are microchipped and monitored by a totalitarian government known as ‘the Department’. The ‘Dob in Disunity’ app offers ‘gamified’ rewards to informants (‘Even kids could join in the fun!’), while troublemakers can be relocated to ‘BestLife’ housing estates where the reality is far from the Instagram hashtag. Reflecting on the events that led to this, protagonist Mim notes that the world ‘shifted slowly, then so fast, while they watched but didn’t see. They weren’t stupid. Or even oppressed in the beginning.’' (Introduction)

Kate Mildenhall, The Mother Fault Maria Takolander , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 October 2020;

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel
Kate Mildenhall, The Mother Fault Maria Takolander , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 October 2020;

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel
A Nowhere Space : Kate Mildenhall’s Urgent New Dystopian Novel Amy Baillieu , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel

'Kate Mildenhall’s confronting new novel, The Mother Fault, is set in an alarming near-future Australia. Climate change has left refugees ‘marking trails like new currents on the maps as they swarm to higher, cooler ground’. Sea levels have risen, species have died out, farmlands have been contaminated, and meat is a luxury. Unprecedented bushfires occur regularly; technology and surveillance are ubiquitous, with bulbous cameras hanging ‘like oddly uniform fruit bats from the streetlights’. The media is controlled, and Australian citizens are microchipped and monitored by a totalitarian government known as ‘the Department’. The ‘Dob in Disunity’ app offers ‘gamified’ rewards to informants (‘Even kids could join in the fun!’), while troublemakers can be relocated to ‘BestLife’ housing estates where the reality is far from the Instagram hashtag. Reflecting on the events that led to this, protagonist Mim notes that the world ‘shifted slowly, then so fast, while they watched but didn’t see. They weren’t stupid. Or even oppressed in the beginning.’' (Introduction)

Keen Insights into Human Character Ed Wright , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 February 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of The Mother Fault Kate Mildenhall , 2020 single work novel ; Either Side of Midnight Benjamin Stevenson , 2020 single work novel
Kate Grenville, Sofie Laguna, Julia Baird and Others : The 20 Best Australian Books of 2020 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 December 2020;
y separately published work icon At Home with Kate Mildenhall Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23454171 2020 single work podcast interview

'Kate Mildenhall tackles the big questions. In this interview she considers how to write about our rapidly changing world (including about climate change and online surveillance), the role of writers in this time of crisis, and whether or not there could be a sequel to her dystopian literary thriller.

'Kate is a writer, teacher, and the mind behind the novels Skylarking and the utterly brilliant The Mother Fault.

'Kate mentions her mentor Charlotte Wood and her phenomenal work The Natural Way of Things.' (Production introduction)

 

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