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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
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'Twenty years after the first boy vanished along the Brisbane River, psychologist Madeleine Jeffries is called home to help untangle a chain of similar disappearances. To do so she must confront secrets and guilt from her own past.

'The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies is an exploration of grief, responsibility and repercussions, and the way childhood actions can echo throughout our lives.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Martin Elliget, for my sons, Benjamin and Thomas and for my parents.
  • Epigraph: Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age, the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters that is. Edna St Vincent Millay from Wine from These Grapes, 1934

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First known date: 2003

Works about this Work

Your View : The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24-25 September 2005; (p. 2)

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
Author's Long Wait is Over 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Westside News , 20 July vol. 26 no. 29 2005; (p. 23)
One Book One Brisbane Marjorie Bullock , 2005 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 -14 August 2005; (p. 2)
Your View Elli Housden , 2005 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 -7 August 2005; (p. 2)
One Book One Brisbane 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 July 2005; (p. 6)
Bookclubbers from the Avid Reader bookshop discuss their reactions to The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
Toubled Families Peter Pierce , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 September 2004; (p. 21)

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
A River Runs Through It Jill Rowbotham , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 September 2004; (p. 15)

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
Intriguing Novel Shimmers with Atmosphere Dianne Dempsey , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 September 2004; (p. 6)

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
One Book One Brisbane Sharan Harvey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 February 2005; (p. 6)

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
Dark Places Rachel Slater , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 16 no. 2 2004;

— Review of The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Kimberley Starr , 2003 single work novel
How to Spot Talent Between the Lines Rosemary Sorensen , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 September 2004; (p. 3)
One Book One Brisbane 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 July 2005; (p. 6)
Bookclubbers from the Avid Reader bookshop discuss their reactions to The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
Your View Elli Housden , 2005 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 6 -7 August 2005; (p. 2)
One Book One Brisbane Marjorie Bullock , 2005 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 -14 August 2005; (p. 2)
Author's Long Wait is Over 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Westside News , 20 July vol. 26 no. 29 2005; (p. 23)
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  • 1980s
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