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All These Perfect Strangers

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Pub Date Mar 01 2016 | Archive Date Nov 30 2015

Simon & Schuster (Australia) | Simon & Schuster Australia


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‘A stunning debut’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Vivid and fresh’ The Age

‘Unputdownable’ Marie Claire

'I just read All These Perfect Strangers in two intense sessions. Best book I've read this year. Fabulous writing.' Fiona Barton, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Widow

You don’t have to believe in ghosts for the dead to haunt you.
You don’t have to be a murderer to be guilty.


Within six months of Pen Sheppard starting university, three of her new friends are dead. Only Pen knows the reason why.

College life had seemed like a wonderland of sex, drugs and maybe even love. Full of perfect strangers, it felt like the ideal place for Pen to shed the confines of her small home town and reinvent herself. But the darkness of her past clings tight, and when the killings begin and friendships are betrayed, Pen’s secrets are revealed. The consequences are deadly.

‘This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders. It’s a grey area. Murder, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. So let’s just call them deaths and say I was involved. This story could be told a hundred different ways.’Your secrets define you, don’t let them kill you.

‘A stunning debut’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Vivid and fresh’ The Age

‘Unputdownable’ Marie Claire

'I just read All These Perfect Strangers in two intense sessions. Best book I've read this year...


A Note From the Publisher
All These Perfect Strangers is Aoife Clifford’s first novel, but she has already won the two major Australian crime writing prizes in short story form: the Ned Kelly - SD Harvey Short Story Award and the Scarlet Stiletto. She was also shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger. In 2013, she was awarded an Australian Society of Author's mentorship for All These Perfect Strangers.

All These Perfect Strangers is Aoife Clifford’s first novel, but she has already won the two major Australian crime writing prizes in short story form: the Ned Kelly - SD Harvey Short Story Award and...


Advance Praise

‘All These Perfect Strangers is a novel of disquieting intimacy and controlled suspense, [Aoife] Clifford deftly tightening the screws until we share the narrator's sense of emotional and physical confinement and the unremitting grip of the past.’

Garry Disher author of Bitter Wash Road

‘With wit and sharp insight, Aoife Clifford delivers a wholly absorbing novel. She illuminates one of the most fraught and exciting periods in a person’s life – the leaving of home and the beginning of university – and crafts a story that deftly reveals all of the nuances of that first year on campus. From the friendships and the attractions to the nastiness. Set amidst a semester of simmering crime, this beautifully written tale follows the lives of the innocent… and those not so innocent.’

Anna George author of What Came Before

‘All These Perfect Strangers is a novel of disquieting intimacy and controlled suspense, [Aoife] Clifford deftly tightening the screws until we share the narrator's sense of emotional and physical...


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ISBN 9781925310726
PRICE A$29.99 (AUD)

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