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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Whole of My World
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'An unputdownable novel for anyone who's ever loved or lost, drawn a line between then and now, or kept a secret that wouldn't stay hidden . . .

Today I am free. No guilt for who's missing, what's been left behind. My face aches from smiling in the wind and my voice rasps from all the screaming, and I know that it's been forever since I've felt so completely alive.

Desperate to escape her grieving father and harbouring her own terrible secret, Shelley disappears into the intoxicating world of Aussie Rules football. Joining a motley crew of footy tragics – and, best of all, making friends with one of the star players – Shelley finds somewhere to belong. Finally she's winning.

So why don't her friends get it? Josh, who she's known all her life, but who she can barely look at anymore because of the memories of that fateful day. Tara, whose cold silences Shelley can't understand. Everyone thinks there's something more going on between Shelley and Mick. But there isn't – is there?

When the whole of your world is football, sometimes life gets lost between goals.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Guest Writer : Nicole Hayes Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Scope , November vol. 59 no. 10 2013; (p. 6)
[Untitled] Maya Linden , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 354 2013; (p. 67)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Bernadette Welch , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 21 no. 2 2013; (p. 40)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Review] The Whole of My World Lyn Linning , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 28 no. 2 2013; (p. 41)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Carody Culver , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 15)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Carody Culver , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 15)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Review] The Whole of My World Lyn Linning , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 28 no. 2 2013; (p. 41)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Bernadette Welch , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 21 no. 2 2013; (p. 40)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] Maya Linden , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 354 2013; (p. 67)

— Review of The Whole of My World Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work novel
Guest Writer : Nicole Hayes Nicole Hayes , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Scope , November vol. 59 no. 10 2013; (p. 6)
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