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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 What Came Before
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'My name is David James Forrester. I'm a solicitor. Tonight, at 6.10, I killed my wife. This is my statement.'

'In Melbourne's inner west, David sits in his car, dictaphone in hand. He's sick to his stomach but determined to record his version of events. His wife Elle hovers over her own lifeless body as it lies in the laundry of the house they shared. David thinks back on their relationship – intimate, passionate, intense – and what led to this terrible night.

'From her eerie vantage point, Elle traces the sweep of their shared past too. Before David, she'd enjoyed a contented life – as a successful filmmaker, a much-loved aunt and friend. But in the course of two years, she was captivated and then undone by him. Not once in those turbulent times did she imagine that her alluring, complex husband was capable of this.

'Dark, atmospheric and gripping, What Came Before is a stunning literary thriller about the risks you take when you fall in love.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of Penguin.
      Extent: 272p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 25 June 2014
      ISBN: 9780670077731
Alternative title: Was Ich Getan Habe
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Btb ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 10th July 2017.
      ISBN: 9783442715121

Works about this Work

Between the Lines William Yeoman , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 30-31 August 2014; (p. 21)
Between the Lines William Yeoman , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 30-31 August 2014; (p. 21)
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