In the Skin of a Monster

by Kathryn Barker

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WINNER: 2015 Aurealis Award, Best Young Adult Novel'One of the most original novels I've read for a long while. Great voices. Complex relationships. Just what I love to read.' - Melina MarchettaCaught in a dreamscape, mistaken for a killer. Will Alice find a way home?Three years ago, Alice's identical twin sister took a gun to school and killed seven innocent kids; now Alice wears the same face as a monster. She's struggling with her identity, and with life in the small Australian town where everyone was touched by the tragedy. Just as Alice thinks things can't get much worse, she encounters her sister on a deserted highway. But all is not what it seems, and Alice soon discovers that she has stepped into a different reality, a dream world, where she's trapped with the nightmares of everyone in the community. Here Alice is forced to confront the true impact of everything that happened the day her twin sister took a gun to school . and to reveal her own secret to the boy who hates her most.
  • ISBN13 9781760111717
  • Publish Date 29 July 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 25 May 2022
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin
  • Imprint A&U Children