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'Twenty-five year old Jewel Murphy has it all: good job, great friends—the perfect boyfriend, but all that is about to change because something evil in her past is demanding to be remembered.
Struck by a series of panic attacks and nightmares of being pursued through a forest, Jewel's world begins to spiral out of control. Uncovering a sister she didn't know existed, she becomes obsessed with finding out what else she may have forgotten. As Jewel uncovers scraps of memory and hints of trauma lurking in her past, she unwittingly alienates those closest to her.
Learning that she spent time as a child on Faraday Island, Jewel returns. She believes that in order to fix everything that is wrong in her life, she must go back to the island and face her secret past. Little does she realise that the bogeyman of her childhood nightmares is waiting for her. Once again, just as she did sixteen years ago, Jewel will be forced into a fight for her life.
The Unforgetting is a 340 page novel that deals with themes of: love, loss, self-courage and fear—all that makes us human. Shown through alternating chapters from past and present, readers are drawn into a child's world of fairies and magic, as well unimaginable grief and terror as an adult Jewel battles to discover who she is.' (Publisher's blurb)
Struck by a series of panic attacks and nightmares of being pursued through a forest, Jewel's world begins to spiral out of control. Uncovering a sister she didn't know existed, she becomes obsessed with finding out what else she may have forgotten. As Jewel uncovers scraps of memory and hints of trauma lurking in her past, she unwittingly alienates those closest to her.
Learning that she spent time as a child on Faraday Island, Jewel returns. She believes that in order to fix everything that is wrong in her life, she must go back to the island and face her secret past. Little does she realise that the bogeyman of her childhood nightmares is waiting for her. Once again, just as she did sixteen years ago, Jewel will be forced into a fight for her life.
The Unforgetting is a 340 page novel that deals with themes of: love, loss, self-courage and fear—all that makes us human. Shown through alternating chapters from past and present, readers are drawn into a child's world of fairies and magic, as well unimaginable grief and terror as an adult Jewel battles to discover who she is.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For my mother, Margaret whose untimely death gave birth to this story. May I never forget.
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Epigraph: 'You forget what you need to remember and you remember what you want to forget.' - Cormac McCarthy The Road
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Jenny Mounfield – Author Interview
2012
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— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , October 2012;
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Jenny Mounfield – Author Interview
2012
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , October 2012;
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