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An absorbing, moving, ruefully tender, witty and wise novel of marriage, motherhood and the paths we navigate through both, for fans of Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.    'I loved The Truth About Her. It's an intelligent, compelling, nuanced tale of guilt, culpability, pride, shame and atonement. But most of all, it's a love letter to daughters, from the mothers who raise them. An astoundingly good debut.' Annabel Crabb  Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how - through work, mothering, and carrying on with her ill-advised, tandem affairs.  The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer.  She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, the right way.    A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly though a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them. An entirely striking, stylish and contemporary novel, from a talented new writer.  PRAISE FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT HER  'Heartfelt, funny and will resonate with many readers. This tender, witty and beautifully written novel is for fans of Georgia Blain, Charlotte Wood and Ann Patchett.' Books+Publishing  'An intimate world filled with characters I could have lived with a great deal longer... rewarding, enjoyable and utterly addictive addictive.' Readings  'A stunning novel, sharply observed, beautifully written, enthralling.' 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'Maley is such a good writer ... witty, savage, unshowy, with a raw tenderness. I feel that sense of bereavement that comes when you've finished a book you've loved, and think I may have to reread it straightaway.' Nigella Lawson    'Lonely mouth ... It's a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don't know what it is. You're looking for just the right thing. But maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don't need anything at all.'   Matilda and Lara are half-sisters who share an unreliable mother and a chaotic past. In every other way, though, they are very different from each other. Lara, ten years younger than Matilda, is a model, living and working in Paris - for her, life is expansive, carefree, beautiful. Matilda's life, in contrast, is solitary, contained, ordered. She works in one of Sydney's buzziest restaurants, Bocca, with an unrequited crush on her boss, celebrity chef Colson. If she's careful - and she always is - she can keep everything in its proper place. Hold the balance between hunger and satiation.  But when Lara's father, the long-absent, erratic Angus Dante, comes back into the sisters' lives to make amends for his past misdeeds, Matilda's compartmentalised life goes seriously awry. As everything blows apart, Matilda is forced to come to a reckoning with who she is, and how to satisfy the hunger she wants to deny.   From bestselling author Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth is a tender, vivid and fiercely relatable novel about the conflicted way women think about their bodies, their appetites, and themselves in the world, about the loneliness of girls and women, and the way we believe ourselves to be worthy - or not - of love.  PRAISE FOR LONELY MOUTH  'Maley's writing is exquisite - lyrical, detailed and deeply immersive. Her ability to capture the smallest moments and intricate and character details make the world feel vivid and authentic ... 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It's a coming-of-age novel and a Bildungsroman all at once - about the enormous effort of finding yourself when you start with bad odds - being abandoned as a child by your mother under the Big Merino at Goulburn. Maley's characters are so gloriously alive I felt I knew them. A beautifully structured novel about how desire - for food, for love, for meaning - can shape a life, if you can just be whole enough to tap into it.' Anna Funder  'I didn't love this novel because it has food in it, but because it dances exquisitely to a tune that I so often gravitate towards in writing - a song of abandonment, ghastly mothers, dysfunctional families, sisterhood, and loss - and because Maley is such a good writer. She's witty, savage and unshowy, with an ironic sensibility that doesn't preclude a raw tenderness that is utterly devoid of sentimentality.' 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