Aoife Clifford
Author of All These Perfect Strangers
About the Author
Aoife Clifford was born in London of Irish parents. She grew up in New South Wales and studied Arts/Law at the Australian National University, Canberra. Aoife has won two premier short story prizes for crime fiction in Australia - the Scarlet Stiletto (2007) and the S.D. Harvey Ned Kelly Award in show more 2012, among other prizes. In 2014 she was awarded an Australian Society of Authors mentorship for her novel, All These Perfect Strangers. Her other books include Second Sight. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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It Takes a Town 8 copies
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It Takes a Town by Aoife Clifford
In Aoife Clifford’s third novel, the death of a local celebrity brings two old schoolmates together to answer some troubling questions. Full Review at: Newtown Review of Books
This book was well written and it kept me glued to the page wanting to unravel the mystery. The only downside is that I couldn't warm up to the main character. At the end of the book you are left wondering if anything Pen had revealed is true or if she's manipulated us. I received this for free from NetGalley and House Party as part of the #rhmysterypack in exchange for my honest review. #sponsored
I ended up skimming this. It never really cam alive for me. Alex returns to her childhood home to try to move her mother (who has dementia) into a nursing home. Instead of focussing on this, or on signing her divorce papers, or on trying to get work to stave off abject poverty, she investigates the deaths of various women, most of whom she she has never met. Admittedly she does come across the leg of one of the corpses at the beginning, but that didn't really account to me for her interest, nor for the way people kept answering her questions when it was none of her business.… (more)
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