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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The House at Number 10
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'Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband and left with a four-year-old daughter to support. She finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. She falls under the house's eerie, yet strangely comforting spell, and discovers within herself not only the ability to perform well, and delight in the freedom bought by an independent income, but the capacity to learn from the men and women she encounters there. One of these men, Jack, teaches her more about revenge than she ever wished to know.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my daughter Helen.
  • Epigraph: The garden is a personal gathering of nature, and the room is the beginning of architecture. (Louis Kahn)

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    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2005 .
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      Extent: 257p.
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      • Published: 9th September 2005
      ISBN: 1862546835
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Related Works

Untitled Dorothy Johnston , 2005 extract novel (The House at Number 10)
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 December 2005; (p. 4)
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Works about this Work

Untitled Sky Harrison , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Autumn no. 6 2007; (p. 55)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
In Brief : Fiction Jo Case , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 281 2006; (p. 61)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
[Review Essay] The House at Number 10 Sylvia Alston , 2006 single work review essay
— Appears in: API Review of Books , January no. 40 2006;
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel

'I was drawn to Dorothy Johnston's latest book, The House at Number 10, not only because it's set in Canberra, a place I've called home for almost 20 years, but because it explores Canberra's seedier side and debunks the myth that it's a cold, soulless place. ' (Introduction)
The Secret Life of a Working Mum Thuy On , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 January 2006; (p. 17)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
Survivors, by Hook or by Crook Toni Johnson-Woods , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel ; Rubdown Leigh Redhead , 2005 single work novel
Untitled Meredith Wright , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 85 no. 3 2005; (p. 68)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
A Close Look at the Oldest Trick in the Book Ceridwen Spark , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 October 2005; (p. 12-13)
— Review of In My Skin : A Memoir Kate Holden , 2005 single work autobiography ; The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
Out of the Country Katharine England , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 November 2005; (p. 10)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 November 2005; (p. 14-15)
— Review of The Bad Seed : A Subtly Sinister Tale Told with Humour and Grace Maurilia Meehan , 2005 single work novel ; The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel ; Spinifex Geoffrey Morlet , 2005 single work novel
Survivors, by Hook or by Crook Toni Johnson-Woods , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of The House at Number 10 Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work novel ; Rubdown Leigh Redhead , 2005 single work novel
A Capital Defence Diane Stubbings , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 October 2005; (p. 11)
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