Half Truth

Nadia Mahjouri

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11 February 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

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A daughter searches for her father; a mother for her son. From isolated Tasmania to vibrant Morocco, two women seek the truth about what happened to the same man.

Khadija is packing up her home of fifty years. In her box of special things are the last reminders she has of her son, Ahmed, missing for more than twenty years. Her belongings take her back to her village childhood, her marriage and move to Marrakech.

In Tasmania, Zahra is in the throes of new motherhood and desperate for answers about her own identity. She decides to take her baby to Morocco and search for the father she has never known. There she finds an extensive loving family and a culture ready to embrace her, but no father.

Zahra and Khadija's stories collide - giving Khadija the power to move on, and Zahra the courage to embrace her identity as

a mother and a mixed-race woman, ready to create a fulfilling life for her son and herself.

A moving drama charting families, motherhood and loss, identity and belonging.

By: Nadia Mahjouri
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 418g
ISBN: 9781761344558
ISBN 10: 1761344552
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nadia Mahjouri is a Moroccan-Australian writer from nipaluna, lutruwita. She works as a group facilitator and counsellor, specialising in perinatal mental health. Her professional background is in health policy, governance and academia, focusing on ethics and feminist philosophy. Her first novel Half Truth is inspired by her own experience searching for her family in Marrakech. Previously, her work has been published in the anthology Emergence, Island online, Mamamia, and in feminist academic journal 'thirdspace' amongst others. She was awarded an Arts Tas ASA Mentorship, a lutruwita playwriting mentorship from Australian Plays Transform, a QWC Varuna Fellowship, and an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Creative Fellowship. Nadia and her husband have a messy happy blended family of five (three grown up's who live elsewhere and two kids that live at home). She loves travelling to places she's never been, cuddling babies, admiring flowers and drinking coffee with people that make her smile. As a writer, Nadia is committed to telling diverse women's stories, and to sharing the untold realities of the complicated and beautiful lives we live.