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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Truth About Her
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'Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how - through work, mothering, and carrying on with her ill-advised, tandem affairs.

'The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, the right way.

'A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly though a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Dedication : For Evelyn
  • Epigraph :

    "You are my one, and I have not another;

    Sleep soft, my darling, my trouble and treasure."

    - Christina Rossetti, Crying, my little one, footsore and weary

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Fourth Estate , 2021 .
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      Extent: 356p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7th April 2021.
      ISBN: 9781460759165 (pbk), 9781460712900 (ebk)
    • London,
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      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      The Borough Press ,
      2022 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9780008520182, 0008520186
Alternative title: A verdade sobra ela
Language: Portuguese

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The Australian Publishing Industry’s Problem with Class Michele Freeman , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2021;

'If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that a vast majority of people who do the essential work of keeping things ticking along are largely invisible—save for national emergencies, when all of a sudden cleaners and supermarket workers are wheeled out in front of us to ‘tell us what it’s like’. The idea that these same people have larger lives and stories though, is still something that Australia’s literary world struggles to grasp.' (Introduction)

The Australian Publishing Industry’s Problem with Class Michele Freeman , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2021;

'If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that a vast majority of people who do the essential work of keeping things ticking along are largely invisible—save for national emergencies, when all of a sudden cleaners and supermarket workers are wheeled out in front of us to ‘tell us what it’s like’. The idea that these same people have larger lives and stories though, is still something that Australia’s literary world struggles to grasp.' (Introduction)

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