Careless

Pearl is eight and does her utmost to keep everything in order: she looks after her five-year-old brother Riley, reads the moods of their unpredictable mother Lily, and keeps her own passions to herself. One summer's day Riley and other children are killed in a Fremantle park, and Pearl's world falls apart while her mother turns to the press. Across the city Sonia, widow of a respected craftsman, is getting used to being on her own, and lets her late husband's workroom to Adam Logan, an artist notorious for casting the body of a young addict who died of heroin, and who now wants to design the children's memorial. The three lives become linked in ways none of them foresees.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2006

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9780330422352 (Picador, Australia)

9780340938232 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)

9780340938249 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)

9781596922761 (MacAdam/Cage, United States)

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