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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Into My Arms
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'The kiss ignited something, blew it into being, and afterwards, all Skye could think about was Ben.

One day a woman meets a man and falls instantly and irrevocably in love with him. It hits her like a thunderbolt, and she has to have him, has to be with him, regardless of the cost, of the pain of breaking up her existing relationship. She has never felt more in synch - or in love - with anyone in her whole life. So this is how it feels, she thinks to herself, this is what real love feels like. It's like that for him too; he wants her in a way he's never wanted anything or anyone before: obsessively, passionately, all-consumingly.

She has found her one true love, her soulmate, and he has found his. What happens next will tear them apart and unleash havoc onto their worlds.

This brave, brilliant, electrifying novel from the acclaimed author of After the Fall and Last Summer, will move you deeply and shock you to your core. Love, lust and longing have rarely wielded such power, nor family secrets triggered such devastation.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For Cameron and Declan.

    My daughter, my son.

  • Epigraph:

    A love story is not about those who lose their hart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing – not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past. –Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.

    I don't believe in an interventionist God

    But I know, darling, that you do

    But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him

    Not to intervene when it came to you

    Not to touch a hair on your head

    To leave you as you are

    And if He felt He had to direct you

    Then direct you into my arms

    Into my arms, O Lord

    Into my arms, O Lord

    Into my arms, O Lord

    Into my arms.

    –Nick Cave, 'Into My Arms'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2013 .
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      Extent: 342p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: May 2013
      ISBN: 9781743314586 (paperback)

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Works about this Work

Well Read Patrick Allington , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of Harmless Julienne Van Loon , 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms Kylie Ladd , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Into My Arms Kylie Ladd , 2013 single work novel
Well Read Patrick Allington , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of Harmless Julienne Van Loon , 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms Kylie Ladd , 2013 single work novel
[Untitled] 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Into My Arms Kylie Ladd , 2013 single work novel
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