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Two striking Australian novels with trauma at their heart
The Deceptions, Sydney lawyer Suzanne Leal’s stunning third novel, also has trauma at its heart, although it is trauma with very different origins. Inspired by true events, this story reaches back more than 70 years and explores the manifold ways families can be affected by events of the past, and the lengths a person will go to in order to survive.
THE DECEPTIONS on the Writes4Women Podcast
In this episode Suzanne chats to Pam about melding fact and fiction, the challenges of writing about such a horrific and thoroughly covered period in history, how the title relates to both the historic and contemporary storylines and so much more.