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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Goodbye Sweetheart
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'A successful lawyer, bon vivant, loving husband and father, has a heart attack and dies while swimming in the local pool. A man apparently happily married, yet, with two divorces behind him and three puzzled children. In death it seems that he is not the person everyone thought.

'As his extended family gathers to mourn, secrets and lies unfold uncomfortably around them. Those pornographic images on his laptop? An unexpected lover - is he still philandering? But somewhere in the turmoil of mourning each of them has to find an answer to the question - who was this man really? What mysteries has he taken to the grave with him?

'Goodbye Sweetheart is a powerful novel of love, the desire for understanding, and the inevitable messiness of life.'

Notes

  • Dedication: for John

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 , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 6404033166339503108.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 291p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2015
      ISBN: 9781760111298, 1760111295 (pbk)
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Works about this Work

Literary Lifeboats Lucy Sussex , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2015;
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Judith Armstrong Reviews 'Goodbye Sweetheart' by Marion Halligan Judith Armstrong , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Bittersweet Fiona Purdon , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 April 2015; (p. 18)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel 'Marion Halligan's first novel in six years comes after a difficult time in her personal life...'
A Smaller Splash with Plenty of Ripples Character Assassinations Helen Elliott , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 April 2015; (p. 24-25) The Canberra Times , 11 April 2015; (p. 18) The Age , 11 April 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Echoes of Eliot in a Tale Stitched from Pain Felicity Plunkett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 March 2015; (p. 16)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Echoes of Eliot in a Tale Stitched from Pain Felicity Plunkett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 March 2015; (p. 16)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
A Smaller Splash with Plenty of Ripples Character Assassinations Helen Elliott , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 April 2015; (p. 24-25) The Canberra Times , 11 April 2015; (p. 18) The Age , 11 April 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Bittersweet Fiona Purdon , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 April 2015; (p. 18)
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel 'Marion Halligan's first novel in six years comes after a difficult time in her personal life...'
Judith Armstrong Reviews 'Goodbye Sweetheart' by Marion Halligan Judith Armstrong , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 370 2015;
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
Literary Lifeboats Lucy Sussex , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , June 2015;
— Review of Goodbye Sweetheart Marion Halligan , 2015 single work novel
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