Caroline Overington
Caroline Overington is an Australian author and journalist.
She has worked for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and is currently a staff writer for The Weekend Australian Magazine.
Caroline is a two-time winner of the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she is also a winner of the Sir Keith Murdoch prize for excellence in Journalism; and of the Blake Dawson Prize.
Caroline has published five books. Her first, Only in New York, was about working as a foreign correspondent in Manhattan.
Her second, Kickback, was about the UN oil for food scandal. It won the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature, and was long-listed for the Walkley Book of the Year.
Her first novel, Ghost Child, is about a child murdered by his parents.
Her second novel, I Came To Say Goodbye, was shortlisted for both the Fiction Book of the Year, and overall Book of the Year, in the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards.
Her latest novel, published in October 2011, is called Matilda is Missing. It is set in the Family Court, and it is about a bitter custody dispute, over a two year old child, Matilda.
Caroline is a proud mother of delightful, 11-year-old twins. She lives with her kids, her husband, a blue dog and a lizard, in Bondi.
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Matilda is Missing was released on October 1. You can download it instantly here.
You can see - and buy! - all of Caroline's books (the novels are available as e-books) here and here.
The first reviews are also in:
The Sunday Herald Sun, October 2:
The Age, October 1:
Praise for I Came To Say Goodbye:
Caroline Overington's second novel, I Came To Say Goodbye, is into its third printing.
It was the Australian Women's Weekly Book of the Month in October 2010.
It's been selected as one of the Australia Council's ``Fifty Books You Can't Put Down.''
``What I had heard was that this story is an Australian, credible addition to the Jodi Picoult school of story writing. In fact, I had heard that Overington had out Picoulted Jodi herself.
I dragged out my proof copy. It was an all night read ... it certainly was “compelling”, “memorable” and “addictive”. And I can’t get some of those characters out of my mind''
- Booktopia.
``Caroline Overington’s second novel proves her as an author whose following is destined to grow in leaps and bounds. Jam-packed with family issues, it’s a gripping blockbuster that booksellers can recommend unreservedly—and especially to book clubs''
- Bookseller and Publisher.
``It hardly seems possible that Overington can pack so many themes into one story—abandonment, mental health, education, unemployment, welfare, child custody, parenting, our family court system ... All of them are handled with sensitive and thought-provoking aplomb, guaranteeing a cracker of a conversation with any fellow reader.
- Scott Whitmont is the owner of Lindfield Bookshop and Children’s Bookshop
Praise for ``Ghost Child'':
GHOST CHILD
By Caroline Overington
Random House $32.99Powerful and engrossing
October 17th, 2009
Caroline Overington - award winning journalist, mother of twins, author and now a brilliant first novel. How does she manage it? Her years as an investigative reporter, she said, frustrated her with its limitations on what she could write about the problem of child abuse. So she resolved to write a novel so she could examine all aspects in depth. But this is no weepy, victim-driven piece of tosh. Told in flashback after 30 years, it traces the story of the death of a child, and the consequences of that death on all involved with him. It's powerful and engrossing and will keep you guessing right until the end.
In a word: Brilliant
``Weaving multiple voices and perspectives, Caroline Overington’s debut novel is both compelling and thought-provoking. Ghost Child is a page-turner of immense power and insight. This is a book people will feel compelled to talk about. ''
- Booktopia.
``Ghost Child is best described as a novel that sticks to your hands like glue. Virtually impossible to put down, I suggest cancelling appointments prior to reading it.'' - Onya Magazine
``Thrilling'' - Good Reading magazine
``An investigative journalist uses this novel to explore the concern we all feel for the children left behind after traumatic experiences ... a thoughtful approach to troubling real-life events'' - Woman's Day
``Superb'' - Woman's Weekly
``Child protection is the real issue here and while it's not pleasant subject matter, it's hard to look away'' - Lucy Clark, The Sunday Telegraph.
Buy it here: http://www.booktopia.com.au/ghost-child-the-past-is-always-close-behind/prod9781863256803.html
