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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder
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'Out of the Silence is a stunning debut novel about three Australian women from very different worlds: Maggie Heffernan, a spirited working-class country girl; Elizabeth Hamilton, whose disappointment in love has served only to strengthen her humanity; and Vida Goldstein, a charismatic suffragist from Melbourne and the first woman to stand for Parliament in Australia. When Maggie's life descends into darkness after a terrible betrayal, the three women's lives collide.' (Publication summary)

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  • Dedication: For Darren - for everything
  • Epigraph: History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in...I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1817

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    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2005 .
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      Extent: 351p.
      ISBN: 1740513835
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Works about this Work

Wendy James – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012;
Passion, Pain and Politics Ashley Cowger , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 23 no. 2 2009; (p. 219-220)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Character References Wendy James , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 April 2006; (p. 2)
Voices of Women Sophie Masson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 50 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 110-111)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 February 2006; (p. 19)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel ; Granny Survivor Jan Dallimore , 2006 single work children's fiction
Fighting for Freedom Mindy Laube , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2005; (p. 23)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Giving Voice to History Christina Hill , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 276 2005; (p. 53-54)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel ; Beyond the Legend : A Kimberley Story Noni Durack , 2005 single work novel
Absorbing Melodrama of Rich Detail in Impressive Debut Diane Stubbings , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 November 2005; (p. 13)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Off the Shelf Owen Richardson , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 November 2005; (p. 32)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Close Enough to a Good Read N. A. Bourke , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 December 2005; (p. 5)
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder Wendy James , 2005 single work novel
Character References Wendy James , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 April 2006; (p. 2)
Wendy James – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012;
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1900
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