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''This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders. It's a grey area. Murder, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So let's just call them deaths and say I was involved. This story could be told a hundred different ways.'
'For Penelope Sheppard, university offers an escape from her troubled past. Running from a life weighed down with scandal and tragedy, Pen sees this as the ideal place to reinvent herself among perfect strangers. Life in her new halls of residence feels like a wonderland of sex, drugs, and maybe even love. But all too soon Pen realises you never can run far or fast enough. And when Pen's secrets are revealed, the consequences are deadly...Little by little, through Pen's flawed narration and tantalising diary entries, secrets, truths and lies come to light and a dangerous dilemma unfolds, twisting and turning until the very last page.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For Richard, Aidan, Genevieve & Evangeline
With thanks to Garry Disher and the Australian Society of Authors' Mentorship Program supported by the Copyright Agency
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording; large print
Works about this Work
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Aoife Clifford, All These Perfect Strangers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 March 2016;
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel -
Well Read : Unreliable Narrators at Crime Scenes
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 April 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Dangerous to Know : Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist 2016 single work novel -
Back on Campus for a Course in Atmospherics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 29) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 20)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Aoife Clifford : All These Perfect Strangers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2016;
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel -
Storyteller's Gift Honed at Home
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 March 2016; (p. 6)
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Aoife Clifford : All These Perfect Strangers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2016;
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel -
Back on Campus for a Course in Atmospherics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 29) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 20)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Well Read : Unreliable Narrators at Crime Scenes
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 April 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Dangerous to Know : Natalie King, Forensic Psychiatrist 2016 single work novel -
Aoife Clifford, All These Perfect Strangers
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 March 2016;
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel -
Storyteller's Gift Honed at Home
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 March 2016; (p. 6)
Awards
- 2017 longlisted Voss Literary Prize
- 2017 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2017 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year