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PICCADILLY PICKS<br />
Before You Knew<br />
My Name<br />
Jacqueline Bublitz<br />
Allen & Unwin, $23<br />
A dead girl writes her story. Alice<br />
Lee, 18 years old, from Wisconsin,<br />
arrives in New York with a Leica<br />
camera and limited funds. She<br />
wants a new start, after her<br />
troubled early years.<br />
Ruby Jones, 36 years old, is also<br />
escaping her past life. She wants to go as far away from<br />
Australia as she can, and New York fits the bill.<br />
The two women’s lives become entwined after Ruby<br />
stumbles upon a grisly find. In the aftermath of this<br />
experience, she finds herself looking for answers about<br />
death, dying and the afterlife. Therapy is not for her until she<br />
discovers the Death Club. Three like-minded but disparate<br />
friends, Lennie, Josh and Sue, are craving to explore the<br />
mystery of death – over good food and wine.<br />
With Alice’s gentle spirit guiding Ruby, the circumstances of<br />
a violent death and the journey to unravel one girl’s untimely<br />
demise are revealed in the final pages.<br />
I was drawn into this beautifully written book from the first<br />
page, fascinated by the thread and relishing the pace right up<br />
to the ending.<br />
- Helen Templeton<br />
The Women of Rothschild<br />
Natalie Livingstone<br />
Hachette, $28<br />
By the late 19th century, the<br />
chronicle of the Rothschild dynasty<br />
was firmly grounded in banking. The<br />
stories of the wealth, power and<br />
charitable activities of the dynasty<br />
have been recorded extensively over<br />
decades by historians, biographers, in<br />
autobiography and in family archives.<br />
Noticeably, however, the published material on the<br />
Rothschilds has been told from a male perspective. The<br />
women’s stories have been largely untold, until now.<br />
Livingstone’s subjects are women of “intelligence, bravery<br />
and imagination” but, as in some instances, were “marred by<br />
deceit, ignorance and entitlement”.<br />
Collectively and individually the Rothschild women’s lives<br />
tell a history of art, culture, sport, science, horticulture, music,<br />
education, adventure, religion and politics.<br />
They have been party to significant moments in history and<br />
have been sources of power and strength in domestic and<br />
international affairs, from the founding of Israel, changing rules<br />
for women’s tennis, the Jazz Age and the suffrage movement<br />
to higher education for women, business management,<br />
international diplomacy, environment concerns, zoological<br />
research and more.<br />
- Kathryn Ell<br />
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