Jaclyn Moriarty





Jaclyn Moriarty

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Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian writer of young adult literature.

She studied English at the University of Sydney, and law at Yale University and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD.

She is the younger sister of Liane Moriarty. She was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and has a son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney.


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What if you decided to set up a little stall on a street corner. And you found strange things around your house, many of them broken— or actually, you made strange things out of the broken items around your house. Craft out of egg cartons and glued-on glitter, maybe. And let's say you placed all these objects in your stall.

And then people came by and said, 'oh, that's nice,' about your strange... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.85 · 21,386 ratings · 1,820 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
The Year of Secret Assignme...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 10,720 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions
Feeling Sorry for Celia (As...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 4,889 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions
The Murder Of Bindy Mackenz...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,718 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions
The Ghosts of Ashbury High ...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,250 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
The Spell Book of Listen Ta...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 947 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
A Corner of White (The Colo...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
I Have a Bed Made of Butter...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
Key Facts in Diabetes
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Does This Book Make Me Look...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2008
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“I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.”
Jaclyn Moriarty, Feeling Sorry for Celia

“I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.”
Jaclyn Moriarty, The Year of Secret Assignments

“She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...]
My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.”
Jaclyn Moriarty, Feeling Sorry for Celia

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