A Child's Book of True Crime

Chloe Hooper

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Random House
01 November 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Australian Fiction

In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted student.

In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted student.

As the young teacher's sexual life is awakened by the father in scenes of escalating eroticism, the guilt she feels towards the son is compounded. Meanwhile, Veronica, her lover's wife, has just published Murder At Black Swan Point, a true crime book about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress some years before, set in a nearby town. Kate becomes fixated on the unsolved crime of passion that occured years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present.

Is it her imagination, or is someone stalking her? Is she caught playing a game where she no longer knows the rules? Has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with that of the murdered adulteress?

Chilling, erotic and rivetingly suspenseful, A Child's Book Of True Crime marks the arrival of a powerful and startlingly original new voice.

'People don't make this kind of fuss for nothing. Hooper's novel is extraordinary...there's a confidence and imagination in the writing that you rarely see in a first novel.' Kerryn Goldsworthy, THE AUSTRALIAN

By: Chloe Hooper
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 196g
ISBN: 9781740512084
ISBN 10: 1740512081
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chloe Hooper was born in 1973 and educated at the University of Melbourne and Columbia University New York, where she studied creative writing. A CHILD'S BOOK OF TRUE CRIME is her first novel. Chloe lives in Melbourne.

Reviews for A Child's Book of True Crime

a useful manual for communities setting out to establish their first library. ...clearly written...an excellent starter for those without a clue where to begin --Library Journal

Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2003
Short-listed for Sisters in Crime's Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel 2003
Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 2002
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2003.
Shortlisted for Sisters in Crime's Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel 2003.
Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 2002.