Jacqueline Maley

Family dysfunction meets fine dining, in this novel about sisterhood, secrets and the things you can’t swallow down. ‘Lonely mouth,’ he repeated. ‘It’s a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is. You’re looking for just the right thing. But maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don’t need anything at all. But you can’t tell.’ Matilda knows about hunger. She works in one of Sydney’s buzziest restaurants, Bocca, while suppressing her cravings, including for her celebrity chef boss, Colson. Everything in her life is tightly controlled: she allows herself one weekend a month to feast and purge, the rest of the time, she stays perfect. Until her younger half-sister Lara crashes back into town, stirring up the family’s chaotic past and bringing long-buried secrets to the surface that threaten to disrupt Matilda’s carefully compartmentalised life. ‘A song of abandonment, ghastly mothers, dysfunctional families, sisterhood and loss... Witty, savage and poignant’ Nigella Lawson

No quise matar a Tracey Doran y, al comenzar el verano, nunca habr a so ado que este se definir a por su muerte Ella era solo una historia m s.La periodista y madre soltera Suzy Hamilton recibe una llamada de tel fono una ma ana de verano y descubre que la protagonista de uno de sus nuevos art culos de investigaci n, la bloguera de bienestar y salud de veintiocho a os Tracey Doran, se ha suicidado esa noche. La noticia la horroriza, pero sale adelante de la nica forma que sabe: a trav s del trabajo, la maternidad y continuando con sus desacertadas aventuras, una tras otra.Las consecuencias de sus actos le pasan factura durante un caluroso verano en S dney. Empieza a recibir cartas an nimas amenazantes y, adem s, sufre la persecuci n de la madre de Tracey, que quiere que, como acto de justicia sumaria, cuente la historia de su hija, pero, esta vez, la verdadera. C mo puedes escribir las historias de otras personas cuando no consigues admitir la verdad de la tuya? Una novela absorbente, conmovedora, tristemente tierna, ingeniosa y sabia sobre el matrimonio, la maternidad y los caminos por los que navegamos, para fans de Ann Patchett y Anne Tyler.Solo una historia m s es una exploraci n tristemente tierna, absorbente, ingeniosa y conmovedora de la culpa, la verg enza, la ira femenina y, sobre todo, la maternidad, con todos sus problemas y sus virtudes. Solo una historia m s es, adem s, una historia sobre la naturaleza de las historias: qui n es su due o, qui n consigue contarlas y por qu las necesitamos. Una novela indudablemente sorprendente, elegante y contempor nea de una nueva escritora llena de talento.

'Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying' Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss ‘I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people’ Daily Mail How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a shocking phone call one morning: the subject of one of her investigative exposés, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Horrified by this news, she copes in the only way she knows how – throwing herself into work, looking after her young daughter and carrying on with two ill-advised affairs. But no one can make their own story disappear, and soon Suzy’s life is spiralling into chaos: will it end in violence or redemption?

'Electrifying, deeply unsettling and so, so satisfying' Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss ‘I raced through this compelling tale about shame, single motherhood, and the lies we tell ourselves and other people’ Daily Mail Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposés, wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how – through work, mothering, and carrying on with several ill-advised affairs. The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, the right way. A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly a story about the nature of stories – who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer.