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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Catch Us the Foxes
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'Some secrets you try to hide. Others you don’t dare let out … Twin Peaks meets The Dry in a deliciously dark and twisted tale that unravels a small town

'Ambitious young journalist Marlowe ‘Lo’ Robertson would do anything to escape the suffocating confines of her small home town. While begrudgingly covering the annual show for the local paper, Lo is horrified to discover the mutilated corpse of Lily Williams, the reigning showgirl and Lo’s best friend. Seven strange symbols have been ruthlessly carved into Lily’s back. But when Lo reports her grisly find to the town’s police chief, he makes her promise not to tell anyone about the symbols. Lo obliges, though it’s not like she has much of a choice – after all, he is also her father.

'When Lily’s murder makes headlines around the country and the town is invaded by the media, Lo seizes the opportunity to track down the killer and make a name for herself by breaking the biggest story of her life.

'What Lo uncovers is that her sleepy home town has been harbouring a deadly secret, one so shocking that it will captivate the entire nation. Lo’s story will change the course of her life forever, but in a way she could never have dreamed of.'(Publication summary) 

Notes

  • Dedication : 'To the best mum in the world, I didn't join a cult. I started one.'

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 , 2021 .
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      Extent: 379p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7 July 2021
      ISBN: 9781760857479
Form: audiobook
    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 .
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      Extent: 11 hours and 50 minutesp.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 6, 2021
      ISBN: 9781760857493

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Works about this Work

Perfect Place for a Cult Jo Thornely , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 August 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel
Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

Perfect Place for a Cult Jo Thornely , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14 August 2021; (p. 17)

— Review of Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel
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