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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch
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'Sophie is in the last term of Year 11. She's used to moving around with her accountant father and free-spirited mother, so the move to a small town on the South Coast in NSW doesn't seem too out of the ordinary - at first.

'But things are changing around Sophie. A new school means a new start - and she's tired of her mother's superstitions and control. When she's recruited to the ranks of the school's popular girls, Sophie seizes the opportunity to remake herself... and unleashes forces a lot more threatening than whether she can hide her true nerd nature from the high school bitch brigade.

'As Sophie negotiates teenage preoccupations with overprotective parents, whether her pyjamas are cool enough for a sleepover and the school-ground politics of secrets, lies and faithless boyfriends, something dark is hovering on the edge of her vision. The school Goth delivers her an ominous warning, strange birds seem to be following her... and fate keeps reuniting her with the dangerous bad boy with a past that nobody wants to talk about: Brody Meine.

'Violent storms suddenly erupt, windows explode in the classroom, and a fire engulfs an entire street. And all these escalating, demonic happenings seem to take place when Sophie and Brody Meine are together...' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 2010 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 682p.
      Written as: Van Badham
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 1 September 2010.
      ISBN: 9780330425728 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Untitled Rebecca Kemble , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 31)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
First-Timer: From Manuscript to Three-Book Deal Jacqueline Kent (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , February/March no. 195 2011; (p. 22-23)
Fiction Reviews Fiona Purdon , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 November 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
Witches and Vampires Visit Kiama in New Novel Danielle Cetinski , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Kiama Independent , 29 September 2010; (p. 8)
After writing more than 30 stage and radio plays that have been performed in six countries, Vanessa decided to write about witches in high schools.
Untitled Meredith Tate , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Meredith Tate , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Reviews Fiona Purdon , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 November 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Rebecca Kemble , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 55 no. 1 2011; (p. 31)

— Review of Burnt Snow : The Book of the Witch Vanessa Badham , 2010 single work novel
Witches and Vampires Visit Kiama in New Novel Danielle Cetinski , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Kiama Independent , 29 September 2010; (p. 8)
After writing more than 30 stage and radio plays that have been performed in six countries, Vanessa decided to write about witches in high schools.
First-Timer: From Manuscript to Three-Book Deal Jacqueline Kent (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , February/March no. 195 2011; (p. 22-23)
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