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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Our Magic Hour
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'All night Audrey woke again and again, and every so often Nick would be awake, too, and their bodies would shift into new shapes, and once Nick reached for her as if in a panic, and once Audrey thumped to the kitchen half-awake and stuck her head under the tap to drink, and once she turned over to face Nick, who was open-eyed, and they began to kiss in a dream, bodies just coming to, and she saw the dull shadows from the streetlights pass over his face as he came, and he covered her body with his and she felt his breath in her hair, and they held each other, and the whole time they never said a thing.

'Audrey, Katy and Adam have been friends since high school—a decade of sneaky cigarettes, drunken misadventures on Melbourne backstreets, heart-to-hearts, in-jokes.

'But now Katy has gone. And without her, Audrey is thrown off balance: everything she thought she knew, everything she believed was true, is bent out of shape.

Audrey’s family—her neurotic mother, her wayward teenage brother, her uptight suburban sister—are likely to fall apart. Her boyfriend, Nick, tries to hold their relationship together. And Audrey, caught in the middle, needs to find a reason to keep going when everything around her suddenly seems wrong.

'Evocative and exquisitely written, Our Magic Hour is a story of love, loss and discovery. Jennifer Down’s remarkable debut novel captures that moment when being young and invincible gives way to being open and vulnerable, when one terrible act changes a life forever.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my parents, and for Sophie and Lilly.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2016 .
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      Extent: 274p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 24 February 2016
      ISBN: 9781925240832

Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Lech Blaine , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;
Meet Jennifer Down, Author of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , June 2016;
June in Fiction Michalia Arathimos , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2016;

— Review of The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood , 2015 single work novel ; What the Light Hides Mette Jakobsen , 2016 single work novel ; Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel
Mourning in Contrasting Milieus Diane Stubbings , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 May 2016; (p. 20)

— Review of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel ; Sing Fox to Me Sarah Kanake , 2016 single work novel
Rainbow Gretchen Shirm , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 380 2016; (p. 39)

— Review of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel
The Year of Living Despairingly Elly Varrenti , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 26) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 26)

— Review of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel
Rainbow Gretchen Shirm , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 380 2016; (p. 39)

— Review of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel
Mourning in Contrasting Milieus Diane Stubbings , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 May 2016; (p. 20)

— Review of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel ; Sing Fox to Me Sarah Kanake , 2016 single work novel
June in Fiction Michalia Arathimos , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2016;

— Review of The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood , 2015 single work novel ; What the Light Hides Mette Jakobsen , 2016 single work novel ; Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work novel
Meet Jennifer Down, Author of Our Magic Hour Jennifer Down , 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , June 2016;
What I’m Reading Lech Blaine , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;
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