Wendy James

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Wendy James

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Wendy James is the celebrated author of eight novels, including the bestselling The Mistake and the compelling The Golden Child, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for crime. Her debut novel, Out of the Silence, won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for first crime novel, and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie award for women's writing. Wendy works as an editor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and writes some of the sharpest and most topical domestic noir novels in the country.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 10,369 ratings · 967 reviews · 41 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Accusation

3.90 avg rating — 3,529 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions
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A Little Bird

4.10 avg rating — 2,753 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions
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The Golden Child

3.74 avg rating — 2,670 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions
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The Mistake

3.55 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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The Lost Girls

3.69 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions
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Out of the Silence

3.43 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Where Have You Been?

3.24 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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The Steele Diaries

3.55 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Why She Loves Him

3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Out of the Silence: A Story...

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“Life has played her like a cat weaving between her legs, pretending to be tame, friendly, before sinking its claws into soft, vulnerable flesh.”
Wendy James, The Golden Child

“what can a child offer their mother that isn’t about love, about wanting to show as well as receive it?”
Wendy James, An Accusation

“two officers introduced themselves as Detective Inspector Stratford and Senior Constable Moorhouse”
Wendy James, An Accusation

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“And yet sometimes she worried about what those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists. The smartest guy in the honors program, Adam Vogel, a child of academics, was planning on getting a Ph.D. and becoming an academic himself. That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical--because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.”
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“True. But your're sad."
I sit up. "Am I?"
"I don't know. Are you?"
"I don't know. Are you?"
He laughs. "I am if you are. I'm not if you're not.”
Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice

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