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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 In the Skin of a Monster
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'Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer ... will Alice find a way home?

'Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and killed seven innocent kids; now Alice wears the same face as a monster. She's struggling with her identity, and with life in the small Australian town where everyone was touched by the tragedy. Just as Alice thinks things can't get much worse, she encounters her sister on a deserted highway. But all is not what it seems, and Alice soon discovers that she has stepped into a different reality, a dream world, where she's trapped with the nightmares of everyone in the community. Here Alice is forced to confront the true impact of everything that happened the day her twin sister took a gun to school ... and to reveal her own secret to the boy who hates her most.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hornsby, Hornsby area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2015 .
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      Extent: 304p.p.
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      • Published August 2015.
      ISBN: 9781760111717

Works about this Work

In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker Jade Harmer , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , December 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
Review : In The Skin of a Monster Liz Derouet , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time , October 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
Review : In the Skin of a Monster Rowena Morcom , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2015; (p. 66)

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
Review : In the Skin of a Monster Katharine England , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 30 no. 3 2015; (p. 39)

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
In the Skin of a Monster Lizzy King , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , August 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel

'With her fantastically original setting and her deft treatment of loss and healing, Barker’s debut novel is well worth a read.'

Review : In the Skin of a Monster Katharine England , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 30 no. 3 2015; (p. 39)

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
Review : In the Skin of a Monster Rowena Morcom , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2015; (p. 66)

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
Review : In The Skin of a Monster Liz Derouet , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time , October 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
In the Skin of a Monster by Kathryn Barker Jade Harmer , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , December 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel
In the Skin of a Monster Lizzy King , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , August 2015;

— Review of In the Skin of a Monster Kathryn Barker , 2015 single work novel

'With her fantastically original setting and her deft treatment of loss and healing, Barker’s debut novel is well worth a read.'

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