An isolated incident / Emily Maguire
- Bib ID:
- 7385048
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Maguire, Emily, 1976-, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2017
- ©2016
- 343 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760553562 (paperback)
- Summary:
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When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella's beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparent easygoing nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of street-smarts only experience can bring. As Chris is plunged into despair and searches for answers, reasons, explanation - anything - that could make even the smallest sense of Bella's death, her ex-husband, friends and neighbours do their best to support her. But as the days tick by with no arrest, Chris's suspicion of those around her grows. An Isolated Incident is a psychological thriller about everyday violence, the media's obsession with pretty dead girls, the grip of grief and the myth of closure, and the difficulties of knowing the difference between a ghost and a memory, between a monster and a man
- Notes:
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- First published 2016 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd.
- "Bella Michaels leaves her work as normal on an April afternoon. She is never seen alive again"--Cover.
- "Longlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award"--Cover.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2016
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