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'Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she adopts out the baby illegally – and tells nobody. Twenty-five years on, Jodie has built a new life and a new family. But when a chance meeting brings the adoption to the notice of the authorities, Jodie becomes caught in a nationwide police investigation, and the centre of a media witch hunt. What happened to Jodie's baby? And where is she now? The fallout from Jodie's past puts her whole family under the microscope, and her husband and daughter must re-examine everything they believed to be true' (publisher blurb).

Notes

  • Dedication:

    In loving memory of James Francis Kennedy

    12 August 1992- - 30 October 2011

    For Jane and Anne, who made it possible.

    And for Darren, who made it.

  • Epigraph:

    But his wife looked back from behind him,

    and she became a pillar of salt.

    –GENESIS 19:26

    It's not the tragedies that kill us,

    it's the messes.

    –DOROTHY PARKER

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 280p.
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      • Published: 1st March 2012
      ISBN: 9781921901041 (pbk.)

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y separately published work icon The Mistake by Wendy James : Notes Laura Dickson , Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1933383 2013 single work criticism
Wendy James – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012;
Wendy James : The Mistake Linda Funnell , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , May 2012;

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 March 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Cold Judgement Hot off the Press Sue Turnbull , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 April 2012; (p. 31)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Not Just for She Who Does the Cooking Sue Green , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2012; (p. 21)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel ; The Memory Tree Tess Evans , 2012 single work novel
Burdened by Buried Secrets Naomi Milthorpe , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 March 2012; (p. 24)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Elli Housden , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 - 11 March 2012; (p. 22)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 31 March 2012; (p. 28)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Cold Judgement Hot off the Press Sue Turnbull , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 April 2012; (p. 31)

— Review of The Mistake Wendy James , 2012 single work novel
Truth Lies and Intrusions Wendy James , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 March 2012; (p. 20)
y separately published work icon The Mistake by Wendy James : Notes Laura Dickson , Victoria : Centre for Adult Education , 2013 Z1933383 2013 single work criticism
Wendy James – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2012;
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