Erina Reddan Erina Reddan i(A108794 works by)
Gender: Female
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Reddan is a Walkley Award recipient whose prize for 'Best Application of the Print Medium to Journalism, 1996', was won during her time as a foreign correspondent for the ABC. She has written a non-fiction book, Baby Daze, about the challenges of motherhood for professional women.

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y separately published work icon The Serpent's Skin Seaforth : Pantera Press , 2021 19094334 2021 single work novel crime 'It's a cold and wintery night in 1968 and ten-year-old JJ's mother isn't home. The cows are milked, the pigs fed, and her dad won't answer any questions.

'The four children survive as best they can in a cloud of their father's lies and clear misery, dealing with their mother's absence in their own ways. But it's always been JJ's job to cause trouble, and her sleuthing wreaks havoc in their tight-knit community.

'Fourteen years on, JJ has a new life, a loving partner and a good job, but she finds herself being pulled back in to the unsolved mystery of her childhood. While pretending to have made peace with her father's dishonesty, she organises a final farewell for her mother so they can all put the past behind them. Will the tragic truth finally set them all free?

'The Serpent's Skin is a gripping, literary crime novel about male power and the secrets that can haunt a family. Most of all, it's about the many ways we prove our love.' (Publication summary)

 
2022 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
2022 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
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