$33.83
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2018
Summary
Award-winning writer Mary K. Pershall details her heart-rending personal experience of raising a beloved child who couldn’t cope with reality, and ends up in a maximum-security prison convicted of murder.
‘The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.’
On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-br…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143789925 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143789929 |
| Author: | Mary K. Pershall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 496g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 156mm x 31mm |
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About The Author
Mary K. Pershall
Mary K. Pershall has written novels for children and young adults, including a trilogy co-authored with her daughter Anna- Two Weeks in Grade Six, A Term in Year Seven and Escape from Year Eight. As well as the Ruby Clair trilogy and the award-winning You Take the High Road, Mary has titles published in the Aussie Bites series.
For many years she worked as an editor and writer for the student magazines published by the Education Department, and later as a relieving assistant principal in ten different schools. More recently, through the Royal Children’s Hospital, she tutored students with chronic llnesses or brain injuries. Mary is an active member of the international online community The Addict’s Mom. She lives in Melbourne.
Mary visits Anna twice a week at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Melbourne’s maximum-security prison for women, where she has come to know many families of women in crisis.
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