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'Susan and Ed Middleton are perfectly content with their lives. Two kids, two cars, a solid brick bungalow in a respectable beaches suburb. They're good people, model citizens. There's barely a ripple in the surface of their happy existence. But when Susan's older sister, who vanished as a teenager, reappears to claim an inheritance, everything is set to change...
Karen - now known as Carly - has had a tough time during the past twenty years: drugs, prostitution, prison. At least that's what she tells them. As Carly insinuates herself further and further into the Middleton's lives, suspicions are aroused - is she really Susan's sister, returned from the dead? If she isn't Karen, who is she? And, imposter or not, why is the Middleton's relaxed and comfortable world suddenly spinning way out of control?' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: To my sisters Blood & Soul
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Epigraph: In the old nursery rhyme, when the cat went to see the queen, he caught a little mouse under her chair; that was long long ago and the queen was different from our queen, but the mouse was the same.
-Rumer Godden, The Mousewife
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Works about this Work
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Wendy James – Author Interview
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012; -
Where Have You Been? by Wendy James
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , February 2011;
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Mystery Sister Keeps Family on Edge
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 20 March 2010; (p. 12)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel ; Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 37)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 13 February 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel ; Wyatt 2010 single work novel -
Well Read
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 February 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Wyatt 2010 single work novel ; Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Suspense in the Suburbs
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 February 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel ; Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel -
Sisterly Acts
2009
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 44-45) -
Wendy James – Author Interview
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012;