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Title: The Cleanskin

Author: Laura Bloom

Narrator: Rajendra Moodley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

I needed someone I could trust. Someone others would trust. Someone with no criminal record. With no previous involvement. A cleanskin. Someone to come over, do the job, and go home....

Some days, even Halley can't find the person she once was. She's changed her name and no one - least of all her husband and son - knows of her past. No one except Aidan, who turns up one day in her small Australian town and shatters the façade she's built so carefully.

Aidan is on a mission. But why is he still taking orders from his brother in an English jail - at the cost of his own happiness? When Aidan forces Halley to face what she's done, what they discover not only changes their understanding of what happened back then, it changes everything now.

Laura Bloom deftly goes to the dark heart of The Troubles to explore the lingering damage wrought by sectarian conflict on communities, families and individuals. Based on real events, The Cleanskin is a story of intense human relationships with a cast of flawed and entirely believable characters.

Members Reviews:

My book of the year - a brilliant read

Iâm lucky enough to have already read The Cleanskin and itâs my book of the year. I canât recommend it highly enough. Itâs one of the most accomplished and moving novels about Australia that I have read. It speaks the truth about what trauma can do to people, down through the generations. Itâs a book about how the past affects us and lives through us, and what consequences really mean and look like in someoneâs life and someoneâs family. It tackles the impact of sectarianism in Ireland and the UK, and how that has affected us here in Australia. How that conflict is deeply ingrained in our countryâs roots and in many of our own ancestries.

It is a big book, and an important book, but itâs also a very human, funny and deeply moving book.

Halley is one of the most subtle, well-written and wonderful female protagonists I have ever had the pleasure of reading a novel about. I find some female protagonists too warm and perfect and prim â completely unrealistic and way too heartwarming. I donât want to receive a pep-talk, I want to read a really good novel. Flawed, intelligent, heroic, passionate, real Ââ Halley is a true original.

One of Laura Bloomâs many strengths is that she is able to write about both women and men, and from both points of view, with great skill, subtlety and reach. Like in her last novel, In The Mood, her male characters are just as rich, multi-faceted and human as the women characters she creates. Aidan provides a truly memorable and moving counterpoint to Halley throughout the novel.

I thoroughly recommend The Cleanskin â itâs destined to be an Australian classic.

compelling Australian crime

Halley has moved to the quiet country town of Mullumbimby to forget her past and start a new life. She now has a loving husband and a teenage son, who know nothing of her previous life. But in the back of her mind is always the worry that her past will catch up with her because she knows âthey will never let you goâ.

Cleanskin contains a complex mix of characters that will have your emotions whirling. I loved them, disliked them, worried about them, couldnât quite understand them and then perfectly understood where they were coming from. Each character was complex, flawed, real but they were never in your face.