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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 The Other Face of Janus
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'Edwina Nearly has problems which range from the banal to the absurd. Her neighbours are fanatical control freaks who leave threatening letters on her doorstep. Her mother, who writes software programs by day and works as a belly dancer by night, is dating a series of unsuitable men and making herself miserable. Her brother is becoming robotic. And now her diary has developed a will of its own and is writing back to her, offering unwanted advice.

'To give herself a break, she decides to visit the Art Gallery one afternoon. There, she falls, Alice-like, into a painting, 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights', a place in which the laws of physics do not apply.

'Edwina finds that she is able to come and go between the Garden and her home in inner-city Sydney at will. All deeply weird, but also seductive, especially when she meets the beautiful and complex Janus - who looks a lot like Paul, a boy Edwina would very much like to know better. Against the advice of her prophetic diary, Edwina rushes headlong into love.

'But who is this enigmatic Janus? How can it be that he bears such an uncanny resemblance to Paul? When Janus wants to enter Edwina's world and finds his way out of the painting, he threatens to destroy Edwina and those she loves'.

Source: bookseller's website.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Pat and Bernie

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2001 .
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      Extent: 240p.
      ISBN: 0207197091
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      Australia,
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      Wutheringink ,
      2015 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 24 June 2015.
      ISBN: 9781925018189

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

The Other Face of Janus by Louise Katz Pam Macintyre , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 10 no. 2 2002; (p. 8)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Geoff Ferguson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 3 2001; (p. 30-31)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 28)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Sally Harding , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 16 no. 3 2001; (p. 40)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Joan Zahnleiter , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 45 no. 4 2001; (p. 28)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Geoff Ferguson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 15 no. 3 2001; (p. 30-31)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
Untitled Sally Harding , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 16 no. 3 2001; (p. 40)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
The Other Face of Janus by Louise Katz Pam Macintyre , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 10 no. 2 2002; (p. 8)

— Review of The Other Face of Janus Louise Katz , 2001 single work novel
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