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Judy Duffy

Judy Duffy's collection of short stories, Bad Mothers, was published in 1988 by McPhee Gribble.

Judy Duffy reviews 'I for Isobel' by Amy Witting

September 1989, no. 114 01 September 1989
Amy Witting’s second novel is a skilfully structured, totally absorbing, mystery story. Not a ‘who done it?’ but a ‘why did they do it?’ Why did Isobel Callaghan’s mother subject her child to such unrelenting and shocking psychological cruelty? Why did Isobel’s always tired, always silent father always acquiesce? Why is it Isobel and not her sister Margaret, who receives such treatme ... (read more)