AWW22 The Centred Victim - Jacqueline Bublitz and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Chaired by Angela Savage.


Turning the crime genre on its head, Jacqueline Bublitz’s Before
You Knew My Name and Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s The Newcomer both
centre the victim in their stories of violent death and the
investigations that follow. The haunting, strangely joyous Before
You Knew My Name tells of Alice Lee arriving in New York with
just a camera and hope, destined to be a Jane Doe one month
later. The Newcomer, which fictionalises an infamous 2002 murder
on Norfolk Island, is a smart, provocative portrait of prejudice,
violence and grief.