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Lisa Emanuel Lisa Emanuel i(16876341 works by)
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1 Books Roundup Ellen Cregan , Dženana Vucic , Lyn Dickens , Lisa Emanuel , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , May 2022;

— Review of How to Be Between Bastian Fox Phelan , 2022 single work autobiography ; Root and Branch : Essays on Inheritance Eda Gunaydin , 2022 selected work essay ; Daisy and Woolf Michelle Cahill , 2022 single work novel ; Abomination Ashley Goldberg , 2022 single work novel
1 Shelf Reflection : Lisa Emanuel Lisa Emanuel , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon The Covered Wife Lisa Emanuel , Seaforth : Pantera Press , 2021 21207650 2021 single work novel

'I think I have been here like this – still, but awake; quiet, but wound tight as a spring shoved into a box – since I lay down, not long after dark. But I must have slept, slept then woken, shifted from blessed nothingness to tortured waiting.

'Sarah is a smart, young lawyer working endless hours when she falls head over heels for Daniel – handsome, passionate and part of the kind of large, chaotically loving family Sarah longed for as the only child of a single mother.

'When Daniel introduces her to a charismatic young couple, Rabbi Menachem Lev and his wife, Chani, despite herself, Sarah is drawn in by their progressive beachside synagogue and the song, feasting and friendship that come with it. By the time she and Daniel move to the Jamison Valley with the other believers, Sarah can’t imagine life without the joy, purpose and love they’ve discovered.

'Four years on, youthful fervour has given way to something darker. As the community celebrates the wedding of a beautiful young convert and a much older divorcee, a series of terrifying truths emerges that tear Sarah’s world apart, and cause her to question everything – her faith, her marriage and her future.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 The Covered Wife Lisa Emanuel , 2019 extract novel
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , September 2019;
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