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Virginia King

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VIRGINIA KING has lived most of her life in Sydney, but has travelled to many places. Her books blend her love of mystery, travel, psychology and folklore in a fast-paced style.

In the past, Virginia has been a teacher, an unemployed ex-teacher, an audio-book producer, the author of over 50 childrenʼs books, a workshop presenter and an award-winning publisher. These days she’s a full-time writer who paints a bit, living in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with her husband, three pet alpacas and four chickens.

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Virginia King Hi Charles, I've only just seen your reply. Apologies for not seeing it here in questions LOL! Many thanks for making the change. I appreciate it. I h…moreHi Charles, I've only just seen your reply. Apologies for not seeing it here in questions LOL! Many thanks for making the change. I appreciate it. I have seen another reviewer I know actually hide her comment under a "spoiler" label that can then be clicked but who knows how to do that??

Interesting that you didn't regard it as a spoiler -- I guess as the author I'm especially sensitive. I've had other readers tell me that the creeping dread about what's going to happen has made the story a great read, so I guess knowing some of those elements in advance might "spoil" that part.

I'm happy with what you've done and good to have met you because of it :-)

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“Has his smile become beatific?”
Virginia King, The Secrets of Selkie Moon

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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about.”
Milan Kundera

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

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