Lonely Mouth

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 and was shortlisted for the 2022 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. Her previous novel, The Truth About Her , was an Australian bestseller and was shortlisted for 2022 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year.>

About the author

Jacqueline Maley is a columnist and senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers. She has also worked on staff at The Guardian in London and at The Australian Financial Review. In 2020 she won a Walkley Award for Journalism and in 2016 she won the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist. Her previous novel, The Truth About Her, was an Australian bestseller and was shortlisted for 2022 ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. She lives in Sydney.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Maley, Maley Jacqueline
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781784746681
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-668-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sydney, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Cultural studies: food and society, FICTION / World Literature / Australia, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: love / relationships, FICTION / Family Life / Parenthood & Children, Coping with / advice about body image issues or topics, FICTION / Places / Australia & Oceania