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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Into the Fire
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'A year after her best friend died in a house fire, Lara can’t come to terms with the loss. Logic says there was no more she could have done to save the mercurial and unhappy Alice, but Lara can’t escape the feeling that she is somehow to blame for the tragedy.

'She spends a weekend at the rebuilt house with Alice’s charismatic widower, Crow, and his three young children. Rummaging through the remains of their shared past, Lara reveals a friendship with Alice that was as troubled as it was intense. But beneath the surface is a darker, more unsettling secret waiting to be exposed.

'Through exquisite prose and searing insight, Into the Fire explores the many ways, small and large, we betray one another and our ideals. It’s a compelling story about power, guilt and womanhood from an outstanding voice in Australian fiction.'  (Publication summary)

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  • Dedication: For Sunday, Leo and Remy xxx

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mulgrave, Ashwood - Mulgrave area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Affirm Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 272p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 29th 2019

      ISBN: 9781925712827
    • Mulgrave, Ashwood - Mulgrave area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Affirm Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30th March 2021.
      ISBN: 9781922419507

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Works about this Work

On Oxytocin Keyvan Allahyari , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 411 2019; (p. 37)

— Review of Into the Fire Sonia Orchard , 2019 single work novel

'The American writer bell hooks had characterised the 1990s as a period of ‘collusion’ between well-educated white women and the capitalist patriarchy (Where We Stand: Class matters, 2000). The new workplace gave these women greater economic power but curbed their agency in altering the structures of the ruling system. All the while, division of labour at home remained more or less unchanged, with women as the primary contributors. This made them feel, hooks recalls, ‘betrayed both by the conventional sexism … and by the feminism, which insisted work was liberating’ without addressing the dearth of job opportunities for women of less privileged classes.' (Introduction)

Sonia Orchard : Into the Fire Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 9-15 February 2019;

'Into the Fire may sound like a thriller or a lurid true-crime story. But while Sonia Orchard’s novel features a death and a mystery, it is, at heart, more of a tale of the ups and downs of female friendship than a whodunit.' (Introduction)

On Oxytocin Keyvan Allahyari , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 411 2019; (p. 37)

— Review of Into the Fire Sonia Orchard , 2019 single work novel

'The American writer bell hooks had characterised the 1990s as a period of ‘collusion’ between well-educated white women and the capitalist patriarchy (Where We Stand: Class matters, 2000). The new workplace gave these women greater economic power but curbed their agency in altering the structures of the ruling system. All the while, division of labour at home remained more or less unchanged, with women as the primary contributors. This made them feel, hooks recalls, ‘betrayed both by the conventional sexism … and by the feminism, which insisted work was liberating’ without addressing the dearth of job opportunities for women of less privileged classes.' (Introduction)

Sonia Orchard : Into the Fire Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 9-15 February 2019;

'Into the Fire may sound like a thriller or a lurid true-crime story. But while Sonia Orchard’s novel features a death and a mystery, it is, at heart, more of a tale of the ups and downs of female friendship than a whodunit.' (Introduction)

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