In the Skin of a Monster
Published on 2. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-74336-782-7 (ISBN)
Description
Caught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer . will Alice find a way home?Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and killed seven innocent kids; now Alice wears the same face as a monster. She's struggling with her identity, and with life in the small Australian town where everyone was touched by the tragedy. Just as Alice thinks things can't get much worse, she encounters her sister on a deserted highway. But all is not what it seems, and Alice soon discovers that she has stepped into a different reality, a dream world, where she's trapped with the nightmares of everyone in the community. Here Alice is forced to confront the true impact of everything that happened the day her twin sister took a gun to school . and to reveal her own secret to the boy who hates her most.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Publishing group
Allen & Unwin
Target group
Young adult
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-74336-782-7 (9781743367827)
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Person
Kathryn Barker was born in Canberra, but growing up there involved plenty of travel. She started primary school in Tokyo (the only kid with a sandwich in her lunchbox) and finished high school in the woods outside Olympia, Washington State (aka that rainy place where Twilight was set). In the years that followed she went to university, became a lawyer, changed her mind, re-trained as a film producer and worked in television. Kathryn currently lives in Sydney with her family, and In the Skin of a Monster is her first novel.