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Sarah Hopkins Sarah Hopkins i(A102913 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Hopkins has worked in legal advocacy, including a period as a solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service. (Publisher's blurb)

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y separately published work icon The Subjects Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2019 15404331 2019 single work novel

'As we got closer I could see behind the sandstone a curved concrete building: a purpose-built structure. But still no fence, no wire. Not a bar in sight. For this, I’d been told that morning, I should be grateful. This was a ‘lifeline…a last chance’. That is what the judge said.

'Daniel is a sixteen-year-old drug dealer and he’s going to jail.

'Then, suddenly, he’s not.

'A courtroom intervention. A long car ride to a big country house. Other ‘gifted delinquents’: the elusive, devastating Rachel, and Alex, so tightly wound he seems about to shatter.

'So where are they? It’s not a school, despite the ‘lessons’ with the headsets and changing images. It’s not a psych unit—not if the absence of medication means anything. It’s not a jail, because Daniel’s free to leave. Or that’s what they tell him.

'He knows he and the others are part of an experiment.

'But he doesn’t know who’s running it or what they’re trying to prove. And he has no idea what they’re doing to him.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
2020 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2019 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novel
y separately published work icon This Picture of You Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2014 7588255 2014 single work novel

'Martin and Maggie have been together for thirty-seven years. He is a judge and she is a painter. They have a high-flying lawyer son and a much loved grandson. Life is good, comfortable, familiar.

'But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and takes his son's car, driving to a suburb miles away, where he has an accident. No one knows why he was there, not even Martin himself, whose mind starts unravelling. It's clear to Maggie that something from Martin's past is troubling him greatly, and she resolves to find out what it was that drew him there, to that particular street.

'As Maggie attempts to piece together the events of that day, Martin takes refuge in what he can remember, regaling his son with his now-vivid memories of one night in New York more than forty years ago, the night he and Maggie met. As Martin's mind spirals inward, the fabric that has been holding his lifetime of secrets at bay gradually starts to tear, and in the process we also see that the son keeps very similar secrets to his father's. Nothing is what it seems in this searing story of love and betrayal, and a family coming apart at the seams.

'This Picture of You is urgent, gripping, insightful and intoxicating, an unforgettable journey into the heart of a family and the secrets that threaten to tear it apart.' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award
y separately published work icon The Crimes of Billy Fish Sydney : ABC Books , 2007 Z1358489 2007 single work novel 'Billy Fish is granted parole. After serving three years for a violent robbery, he walks out the prison gates. His life has revolved around drugs, crime and custody, while his sister Rose has lived a structured existence, working and caring for her son. Both Billy and Rose are fighting against their past in different ways, but remain inextricably linked by a harsh childhood.' - back cover
2008 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region Best Book
2006 highly commended ABC Fiction Award
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