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  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143206507
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $30.00
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Make Me an Idol





Moving from the rugged Tasmanian coast to the ashrams of India and the Himalayan foothills, Make Me an Idol is a beautifully touching story about how to be a mother, and how to live without one.

Go in search of your mother by all means, but don't count on what you'll find . . .
Zelda Madison grew up knowing very little about her mother – only that she had been a dancer, an American, and that she had died. But Zelda learns that her mother was so much more than that. She was an international superstar, an idol – and she is still alive.

Leaving behind her quiet life in a remote fishing village on Flinders Island, Zelda sets off on the journey of a lifetime. Piecing together the few clues left to her, she digs deep into a painful past in the hope she can uncover a new future.

Moving from the rugged Tasmanian coast to the ashrams of India and the Himalayan foothills, Make Me an Idol is a beautifully touching story about how to be a mother, and how to live without one.

'This novel is undoubtedly headed for great popular success' Weekend Australian

  • Published: 30 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143206507
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Katherine Scholes

Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. She was born in Tanzania and six of her adult novels are set there, during the Independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division. Her novel she wrote afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award. The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026), brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.

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