Jaclyn Moriarty
Author of The Year Of Secret Assignments
About the Author
Jaclyn Moriarty is the prize-winning, best-selling author of novels for young adults and adults including Feeling Sorry for Celia and The Year of Secret Assignments. Jaclyn grew up in Sydney, lived in England, the US, and Canada, and now lives in Sydney again. She was born in 1968 in Perth and show more studied English and Law at the University of Sydney. She then completed a Masters in Law at Yale University and a PhD at Gonville Caius College, Cambridge. She worked asan entertainment an dmedia lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. The Asbury Brookfield Series is four novels that revolve around various student that attend the exclusive private school, Asbury High. Many of the students cross over into more than one novel. The series includes: Feeling Sorry for Celia, Finding Cassie Crazy, The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie, and Dreaming of Amelia. Her title The Cracks in the Kingdom won the Aurealis Award in 2014 for Young Adult Novel. It also won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People¿s Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1968
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Australia
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- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Places of residence
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Education
- Yale University (M.A. ∙ law)
University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College) (Ph.D ∙ law)
University of Sydney (English ∙ law) - Occupations
- entertainment lawyer
author - Relationships
- Moriarty, Liane (sister)
Moriarty, Nicola (sister)
McAdam, Colin (former husband)
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- Rating
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Abigail’s brother goes missing on the eve of her 16th birthday and it haunts the rest of her life. That same day she starts to receive mail with chapters of a self help book called “The Guidebook” and that continues for 20 years and has a profound effect on her life. What happens after those 20 years (plus a few flashbacks) is our story. The explanation of the book is weird but oddly charming.
There are some nice moments here but overall it was as the star ratings say: Just OK
(Chosen from the library because I like the cover.)… (more)