A Child's Book of True Crime

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. 238, [1]. Illustrated wraps. Cover art by Paul Catherall.

Signed by Hooper to title page.

Author's literary debut. A New York Times Notable Book. Short listed for the 2002 Orange Prize. Finalist for the 2002 Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction) and the 2003 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award (Christina Stead Prize for Fiction). Steeped in eroticism and narrated by Australian fauna, a novel about an Australian trainee teacher who tempts fate by sleeping with the father of her most gifted pupil.

"People don't make this kind of fuss for nothing. Hooper's novel is extraordinary... there's confidence and imagination in the writing that you rarely see in a first novel." –Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Australian