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    Writing Podcast Episode 417 Meet Jacqueline Maley, author of ‘The Truth About Her’.

    In Episode 417 of So You Want To Be A Writer: Meet Jacqueline Maley, author of The Truth About Her. Impress your friends and family with the word ‘otiose'. Plus, we have 3 copies of The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry to give away.

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    Jacqueline Maley is a columnist and senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers, where she writes about politics, people and social affairs. She has also worked on staff at The Guardian in London and at The Australian Financial Review, as well as contributing to numerous other publications including Gourmet Traveller and Marie Claire. In 2016 she won the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist. She lives in Sydney with her daughter and partner.

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    Fiction – paperback; Fourth Estate; 356 pages; 2021.

    The summer after I wrote the story that killed Tracey Doran, I had just stopped sleeping with two very different men, following involvement in what some people on the internet called a ‘sex scandal’, although when it was described that way it didn’t seem like the kind of thing that happened to me.

    So begin’s Jacqueline Maley’s The Truth About Her, a story about a newspaper journalist whose work — and messy sex life — comes back to bite her.

    Journalist in trouble

    This literary-novel-cum-psychological-thriller is set in Sydney and follows the pursuits of Suzy Hamilton, a hardworking investigative journalist who normally writes about politics. Indeed, when the novel opens, she discovers that she’s being sued for defaming a retired media mogul in a 400-word piece she wrote covering a former prime minister’s funeral.

    But she steps outside her normal reporting expertise when she gets a tip-off that Tracey Doran, a local wellness blogger, organic food expert, social media influencer and podcaster, isn’t all she’s cracked up to be. The story is too good to ignore, so she writes one that exposes the truth behind Tracey’s lies.

    Tracey, it turns out, hasn’t cured herself of cancer, as she claims, because she never had cancer in the first place. (If this sounds vaguely familiar it’s probably because it borrows heavily on the Belle Gibson scandal in which an Australian wellness guru was found guilty of fraud. You can read more about that on Wikipedia or watch the documentary ‘Bad Influencer’ which is currently available on BBC iPlayer in the UK and ABC iView in Australia.)

    Following the publication of the story, Tracey commits suicide. (This, by the way, isn’t a plot spoiler — it happens in the first chapter. The novel is about the outfall of this event, not the event itself.)

    Suzy, shocked by the news, trie

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    SPEAKERS

    Nicole Abadee, Jacqueline Maley

     

    Nicole Abadee 

    Hello, I'm Nicole Abadee and I write about books for Good Weekend. Welcome to the Books, Books, Books podcast in which I interview the best writers from Australia and overseas about their latest book. Thank you for joining me. Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge the country where I live and work and from where I'm joining this conversation, the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I pay my respects to their elders past and present to the elders of all communities and cultures across Australia, and to leaders of the future. You can listen to this podcast all of the episodes at nicolabadee.com.au or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.  Today, I'm delighted to welcome to Books, Books, Books, highly respected journalists Jacqueline Maley, to talk about her first novel "The Truth About Her" published earlier this year by Fourth Estate. Before she became a journalist, Jacqueline did a degree in Arts Law at the University of New South Wales, and worked for a short time as a lawyer. She started at the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 2003. And she's now a columnist and senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age writing about politics, people and social affairs. In 2016, Jacqueline won the Kennedy Award for outstanding columnist. In 2020 She won, with her colleague, Kate McClymont, the Walkley Award for excellence in journalism for the investigation in the Sydney Morning Herald into allegations against former High Court Justice Dyson Hayden. Jacqueline, welcome to Books, Books, Books.

     

    Jacqueline Maley 

    Thank you so much, Nicole. It's such a pleasure to be here.

     

    Nicole Abadee 

    Let's start by you telling us what the truth about her is about.

     

    Jacqueline Maley 

    Yeah, it's a novel that is centred around the protagonist, Suzy Hamilton, who is a journalist and single mother