Caroline Overington
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Caroline Overington was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1970. She earned her degree from Deakin University. and is a senior journalist for the Australian. She is the author of Last Woman Hanged which won a Davitt Award 2015 in the True Crime Book category. Her other work includes the bestseller, toon meer The One Who Got Away, published in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- 1970
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
Santa Monica, California, USA
Bondi, New South Wales, Australia - Opleiding
- Deakin University
- Beroepen
- journalist
editor - Organisaties
- The Australian
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism (2004)
Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature
Sir Keith Murdoch Prize for Journalism (2006) - Korte biografie
- Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written eleven books, including the top ten bestseller The One Who Got Away, and Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015. She has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney. [retrieved 6/1/2017 from Amazon.com]
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The story and narration are good, but I could have benefitted by having the ebook also. Many different characters, lots of changes in time line and character did cause some confusion for me. Recommended.
Publisher info. Amazon - In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day.
The story made the headlines, and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boy's mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime. Police declared themselves satisfied with the result, saying there was no doubt that justice had been done.
And yet, for years rumours swept the estate and clung like cobwebs to the long-vacant house: there had been a cover-up. The real perpetrator, at least according to local gossip, was the boy's six-year-old sister, Lauren....
Twenty years on, Lauren has created a new life for herself, but details of Jacob's death begin to resurface and the story again makes the newspapers. As Lauren struggles with the ghosts of her childhood, it seems only a matter of time before the past catches up with her.… (meer)
Publisher info. Amazon - In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying still and silent on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day.
The story made the headlines, and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boy's mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime. Police declared themselves satisfied with the result, saying there was no doubt that justice had been done.
And yet, for years rumours swept the estate and clung like cobwebs to the long-vacant house: there had been a cover-up. The real perpetrator, at least according to local gossip, was the boy's six-year-old sister, Lauren....
Twenty years on, Lauren has created a new life for herself, but details of Jacob's death begin to resurface and the story again makes the newspapers. As Lauren struggles with the ghosts of her childhood, it seems only a matter of time before the past catches up with her.… (meer)
I was amazed to find, when I began structuring this review, that I had actually read this book 10 years ago (see my original review here) but I honestly had no recollection of it.
The main story is told by two main narrators. One is Snow Delaney who is in jail for cruelty to disabled children, and is suspected of having somehow disposed of her missing sister. Snow denies knowing anything about that, but in the the light of what we learn about what she has done to children in her foster care, how reliable is she as a narrator? The other narrator is Jack "Tap" Fawcett, a journalist who has been following the disappearance of Agnes Moore, and with whom Snow begins a correspondence when she is in jail. In the letters to Fawcett Snow fills in her back story and tries to convince him of her innocence. Fawcett is unequivocal in his belief that Snow has had something to with her sister's disappearance, but how reliable a narrator is he?
(Date discrepancy
Text in the novel says John Moore went to Oxford in 1930 at age of 20, and that he was picked for the Melbourne Olympics in athletics in 1956. That would make him 46 then. Surely he must have been at Oxford later than that? Something like 1954?
Agnes Moore met her husband John in Western Australia in 1958 when she was 17, and she was born in 1940. When she disappeared in 2009 she was 69.)
This was an interesting read, particularly the details of how Snow "managed" the "care" of 19 disabled children. It makes you wonder how much based on fact those details are.… (meer)
The main story is told by two main narrators. One is Snow Delaney who is in jail for cruelty to disabled children, and is suspected of having somehow disposed of her missing sister. Snow denies knowing anything about that, but in the the light of what we learn about what she has done to children in her foster care, how reliable is she as a narrator? The other narrator is Jack "Tap" Fawcett, a journalist who has been following the disappearance of Agnes Moore, and with whom Snow begins a correspondence when she is in jail. In the letters to Fawcett Snow fills in her back story and tries to convince him of her innocence. Fawcett is unequivocal in his belief that Snow has had something to with her sister's disappearance, but how reliable a narrator is he?
(Date discrepancy
Text in the novel says John Moore went to Oxford in 1930 at age of 20, and that he was picked for the Melbourne Olympics in athletics in 1956. That would make him 46 then. Surely he must have been at Oxford later than that? Something like 1954?
Agnes Moore met her husband John in Western Australia in 1958 when she was 17, and she was born in 1940. When she disappeared in 2009 she was 69.)
This was an interesting read, particularly the details of how Snow "managed" the "care" of 19 disabled children. It makes you wonder how much based on fact those details are.… (meer)
Great story line and great listen. Highly recommended.
Publisher's info - On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go.
He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?
Publisher's info - On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go.
He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?
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Although this novel has strong, clearly-drawn, relatable characters, perfectly-pitched dialogue and some moments of real tension, I found myself increasingly disengaged from it as I reached the final third of the book.
It felt to me that this was a story that twisted in my hands, starting as one thing and ending as something else.
I loved the night-before-Lockdown opening. It was surprising but credible and more than a little menacing. The life of the about-to-turn-seventy widower-of-many-years who copes with loneliness by sticking to a routine that includes daily early-morning swims on Bondi Beach and fishmongers or beans on toast in front of the telly in the evening was described with a nice combination of accuracy and empathy.
For the first couple of hours, this felt like a thriller. There was mistrust, which may or may not have been paranoid and sharing and support that may or may not have been cynical manipulation. The stakes kept getting higher until, eventually, things got physical. I'd expected the story to climax there, releasing the tension and using a short epilogue to tie things up.
That wasn't what happened. As the thriller plot rolled forward, more and more time was spent on the character and history of the various family members. It was good stuff but it was more detailed than a thriller required and I felt it kept dissipating the tension the thriller plot had created. By the end of the book, the family drama part of the story had become dominant and the final chapters were spent not in tying up loose ends in the thriller plot but in fleshing out the history behind the domestic drama and driving rather determinedly towards a more or less happy ending.
This didn't work for me. I ended the book thinking that I'd met some interesting characters but missed out on the chance for a thriller-in-a-time-of-COVID that I would have enjoyed a lot more.… (meer)