Matilda is Missing

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Author
Caroline Overington
Publisher
Random House
Genre
Fiction
Released
01 November, 2011

Matilda is Missing

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    Synopsis

    Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day.Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edges, plus one failed marriage and an assortment of jobs under his belt. But Softie's body clock was ticking, and Garry wanted children ...So they got married, and produced the only thing they ever had in common. Matilda.Now, two years later, their golden-haired child is at the centre of a bitter divorce and custody battle. Both parents insist that her well-being is the only thing they care about. Yet, in truth, Matilda was always the one most likely to become lost. "A gripping and emotional tale of love and marriage."  Australian Women's Weekly"Fans of Jodi Picoult are better off with Overington … potent, dramatically assured and thought-provoking fiction."  Saturday Age"Overington has a real gift … both in storytelling and in dialogue."  Sydney Morning Herald"Beautifully written and highly emotional."  Take 5
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    About the author

    Caroline Overington

    Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has previously written for the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian and the Australian Women’s Weekly, and has twice won Australia’s prestigious journalism award, The Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has written eleven books, including Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing in 2015 and I Came To Say Goodbye, shortlisted for both Book of the Year, and Fiction Book of the Year, at the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards.  She has profiled some of the world’s most famous women including Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, and lives in Sydney with her family, a blue dog and a lizard.

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