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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Shot
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'How much would you sacrifice for another shot at the perfect life?

'Producer Mara Bolt is the queen of reality TV. Ambitious to the point of ruthlessness, Mara will do anything - anything - for ratings. When she meets Kristy Shaw, Mara is certain she's found the star of her newest series, The Shot.

'Kristy is languishing away in her small hometown and a dead-end job, pining for her first love, Max Irving. The Shot offers her a Total Body Transformation - extreme plastic surgery to render her unrecognisable - as a way to recapture Max's affections under a new identity. But there's a catch: if she doesn't secure his heart in thirty days, she must have her surgeries reversed, and go back to her old life.

'As the cameras start rolling, Mara and Kristy both get the sense that there is something happening behind the scenes - something that threatens to reveal old wounds and new secrets that neither of them wants to reckon with. If they are going to keep the show on track, they must contain the truths and desires that lie just beneath the surface.

'The Shot is a rollercoaster read about our obsession with beauty and the trappings of success, and the desperate, outrageous lengths we will go to for love and ambition.'(Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Macmillan Australia , 2023 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 30 May 2023

      ISBN: 9781761260780
Form: audiobook
    • Tullamarine, Keilor - Sunshine area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan Australia Audio , 2023 .
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      Extent: 14 hrs and 48 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 May 2023
      ISBN: 9781761267352

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.

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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 May 2023;
‘Sinister’, ‘Bonkers’, ‘Meta’ : The Best Australian Books Out in June Celina Ribeiro , Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen , Michael Sun , Steph Harmon , Sian Cain , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 June 2023;

— Review of Eleven Letters to You Helen Elliott , 2023 single work autobiography ; Sad Girl Novel Pip Finkemeyer , 2023 single work novel ; Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Media Monsters : The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires Sally Young , 2023 multi chapter work criticism ; The Shot Naima Brown , 2023 single work novel ; The Year My Family Unravelled Cynthia Dearborn , 2023 single work autobiography ; The Days Toppled Over Vidya Madabushi , 2023 single work novel
I Waited Tables for 13 Years. Each Unhappy Customer Is Different and I Learned from All of Them Naima Brown , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 May 2023;
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