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Narrator Bettina Whitelaw, now nearing eighty, lives in England and belongs to the literary establishment but was brought up in Bundaroo, a small town in the Australian outback. At sixteen, Bettina won a prize in a competition sponsored by the Bulletin, managed to escape from Bundaroo and began a literary career which ultimately took her to Europe. Sixty years later, she begins to write her memoirs. As painful and disturbing images from her childhood begin to re-surface, other elements from her past in the hot, dusty outback town combine to put her in serious danger.
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Crime
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: New York Times Book Review The , 22 February vol. 109 no. 8 2004; (p. 15)
— Review of A Cry from the Dark 2003 single work novel
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Crime
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: New York Times Book Review The , 22 February vol. 109 no. 8 2004; (p. 15)
— Review of A Cry from the Dark 2003 single work novel
Last amended 24 Nov 2003 10:02:59
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- Armidale area, New England, New South Wales,
- Walgett, Walgett - Collarenebri area, Far North NSW, New South Wales,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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