The Making Of Christina

Author: Meredith Jaffe

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9781743548462
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
  • : Macmillan Australia
  • : May 2017
  • : 233mm X 154mm
  • : July 2017
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Description

"A welcome new talent" Caroline BaumInterior designer Christina Clemente is caught off guard by an intense affair with her charismatic client, Jackson Plummer. He quickly becomes the cure to Christina's loneliness and a surrogate father to her young daughter Bianca. When Jackson suggests moving to a rundown farm in the mountains, Christina soon forgets her initial hesitation and absorbs herself in restoring the rambling century-old house, Bartholemews Run, becoming obsessed with solving its mysterious history. But while living on the isolated farm, her once effervescent child transforms into a quiet sullen teenager and Christina increasingly struggles to connect with her.Because Bianca has a secret. And the monstrous truth threatens to destroy them all.PRAISE FOR THE FENCE"Jaffé does for neighbourly disputes what Liane Moriarty did for schoolyard scandals in big little lies...the fence is guaranteed to resonate" Australian Women's Weekly

Author description

Meredith Jaffe is a writer and occasional book critic. For four years she wrote the weekly literary column 'The Bookshelf' for the online women's magazine The Hoopla. Meredith regularly chairs panels, presents workshops and interviews fellow authors for various literary events and writers' festivals. As a keen believer in the power of literacy, Meredith volunteers at The Footpath Library where she manages their annual EPIC! writing competition for school children. She is currently working on her next novel in between riding her horses and enjoying farm life with her family on the beautiful NSW south coast.