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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Hello from the Gillespies
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'For more than thirty years, Angela Gillespie has sent friends and family around the world an end-of-year letter titled 'Hello from the Gillespies'. It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself – she tells the truth . . .

'The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband seems to be having a mid-life crisis. Her grown-up twins are having career meltdowns. Her third daughter, badly in debt, can't stop crying. And her ten-year-old son spends more time talking to his imaginary friend than to real ones.

'Without Angela, the family would fall apart. But when Angela is taken from them in a most unexpected manner, the Gillespies pull together – and pull themselves together – in wonderfully surprising ways . . .

'From the bestselling author of The House of Memories comes a funny and heartfelt novel about miscommunication and mayhem in a family like no other.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: In memory of a wonderful woman, Dympna Dolan of Tateswtown, County Meath, Ireland

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2014 .
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      Extent: 518p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 24 September 2014
      ISBN: 9781921901812
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2015 .
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      Extent: 528p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 26th August 2015
      ISBN: 9780143572848
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2018 .
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      Extent: 528p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2 July 2018

      ISBN: 9780143785675
Alternative title: Das Schönste Kommt Zum Schluss Roman
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Goldmann ,
      2015 .
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      Extent: 540p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 January 2015

      ISBN: 9783442483624

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Letters Full of Lies Angus Dalton , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2014; (p. 30-32)
'Born in Australia but now based in Dublin, Monica McInerney chats with Angus Dalton about family secrets, the sham cheeriness of Christmas update letters, and Hello from the Gillespies, her latest novel.'
[Untitled] Kate Bartold , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 November 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Hello from the Gillespies Monica McInerney , 2014 single work novel
A Letter that Stirred It Up Stephanie Pegler , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 September 2014; (p. 6-7)

— Review of Hello from the Gillespies Monica McInerney , 2014 single work novel
A Letter that Stirred It Up Stephanie Pegler , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 September 2014; (p. 6-7)

— Review of Hello from the Gillespies Monica McInerney , 2014 single work novel
[Untitled] Kate Bartold , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 November 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of Hello from the Gillespies Monica McInerney , 2014 single work novel
Letters Full of Lies Angus Dalton , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2014; (p. 30-32)
'Born in Australia but now based in Dublin, Monica McInerney chats with Angus Dalton about family secrets, the sham cheeriness of Christmas update letters, and Hello from the Gillespies, her latest novel.'
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