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Cooee

It wasn’t my fault. Emotions are not amenable to schooling. We cannot pretend to feel something we do not feel. I mean, to ourselves. Of course we can pretend whatever we like to the world, and if we’re clever enough the world is deceived. I deceived the world, I think.

ISABEL Weaving is pining for her second husband, the charismatic Max, but he is no longer around. She adores her beloved granddaughter, Sophie, and her distant son, Dominic. But she views the rest of her family (placid daughter, Kate, mild-mannered first husband, Steve, bossy big sister, Zoe) with withering distaste.

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RRP: $22.99
Published: 3 April 2017
Paperback: 320pp
PB ISBN: 9781925498066
EBOOK ISBN: 9781925410426

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Vivienne Kelly

Vivienne Kelly was born and educated in Melbourne, where she now lives.
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‘I absolutely loved Cooee by Vivienne Kelly, who writes so incredibly well. It’s sort of a dark and elegant literary mystery.’

–Wendy Harmer
Sydney Morning Herald

‘How masterfully Vivienne Kelly turns the screws in this drolly gothic morality tale…Cooee is a tantalising story of denial, delusion and suspense by a wonderfully fresh and confident new voice.’

–Cate Kennedy

‘Kelly has cleverly constructed her tale so that, just when the reader may be getting exasperated with Isabel’s attitudes, her reactions and her (almost) petulance, a major twist adds intrigue…This is a brilliant debut novel.’

–BookMooch

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Funny, tender and savage, The Starlings is a wonderfully entertaining novel about secrets and defeat, about heroism and love, about what it might mean to lose everything. Read more

© Vivienne Kelly 2017

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