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Adelaide Advertiser
‘The Mistake is a knockout read . . . with a plot that will haunt you long after the final pages’ Angela Savage, AngelaSavage.com
‘The Mistake is an expertly written, compulsively readable novel that repays the reading with rich reflection. There are no easy answers here and the multiple “truths” of the novel are continually called into question. Everyone is culpable. There are plenty of parallels between Jodie Garrow’s life and those of other real-life women who have been caught up in a media frenzy and judged based on appearance. Nevertheless, the psychological implications go beyond a political statement. This is a powerful book with broad appeal’
Maggie Ball, Seattle PI
‘Within its suspenseful narrative, The Mistake has important things to say about how we think about motherhood, how the media views women, and how, when it comes to “the natural relationship between mother and daughter”, few can be neutral’
Linda Funnell, Newtown Review of Books
‘As in the public narratives we devour with tea and toast in the morning, there is nothing to convict Jodie upon except our own judgment of her character; we relish or condemn her according to our sense of moral distance from her. We take part as armchair jurors, comfortable in our own safety, never suspecting that buried secrets of our own may one day be uncovered’
Naomi Milthorpe Canberra Times
‘. . . an amazing book that had me hooked from start to finish’
Helen McKenna, author, Great Aussie Reads
‘Brilliant, haunting and disturbing, with a twist that will leave you gasping, this is both a subtle and closely-observed portrayal of a family under stress, and a gripping thriller that leaves you guessing to the very end’ Sophie Masson, author, Goodreads
‘It’s sneakily challenging, disconcerting, compelling, car crash fascinating, and probably one of the best fictional reminders I’ve had in a while that public and media opinion should never be mistaken for the justice system, regardless of the ultimate outcome’ Karen Chisholm, AustCrimefiction.org
‘It’s hands down one of the best endings I’ve read in a book, possibly ever’ 1girl2manybooks.wordpress.com/
Where Have You Been?
Where Have You Been? is a novel you’ll not want to put down’
Australian Bookseller & Publisher
‘The narrative’s power and cumulative suspense call to mind Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo’ Sara Dowse, Sydney Morning Herald
‘Wendy James’s third novel is structured like a symphony . . . Skilful structuring, fine, flexible writing and suspense that comes to a satisfying, if not limitingly cut-and-dried conclusion, make this social-realist novel as hard to put down as any thriller’
Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser
Why She Loves Him
‘Emotionally astute, vivid and eloquent, underpinned by eroticism, James’s fiction traces the contours of her characters’ lives as they grapple with responsibility, freedom, and love, propelled by multifarious desires. These fresh, sensuous stories are by turns witty, perceptive and coruscating, many with a delicious wry twist’
Felicity Plunkett, critic
‘. . . absolutely amazing . . . There is something for everyone in this fantastic book’ Australian Bookseller & Publisher
‘From single page tales to the long sequence that ends the book, James’s sure hand leads us through sometimes harrowing, sometimes redemptive moments in her beautifully rounded characters’ lives’
Who magazine
‘. . . a penetrating picture of our life and times . . . a knockout’
Sara Dowse, Canberra Times
‘What quiet confidence, what an honest setting down of things as they are, nothing extenuating . . . This is a gifted story-teller and these are unusually arresting stories’ Robert Lumsden, Adelaide Review
Out of the Silence
‘This is a work of intelligence and talent informed by a deeply humane sensitivity . . . If Wendy James aspires to be our national novelist, she is on her way. In equal measures intellectual and sensual, Out of the Silence is a brilliantly cut literary gem sparkling from every angle’
Sydney Morning Herald
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First published in Australia in 2017
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ISBN: 978 1 4607 5237 1 (paperback)
ISBN: 978 1 4607 0722 7 (ebook)
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
James, Wendy, 1966- author.
The golden child / Wendy James.
Subjects: Families – Fiction.
Teenagers – Fiction.
Bullying – Fiction.
Australian fiction.
A823.4
Cover design by Hazel Lam, HarperCollins Design Studio
Cover image by Wonyeop & Yeongdeok /Getty Images
Author photo by EMG Photography