One Night (ATOM Study Guide)

Please note: This study guide only covers the first two episodes of One Night (out of the six-episode series).

One Night is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night twenty years ago.

Since then, Simone has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist, but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of forty, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success.

But it soon becomes apparent that the devastating story the book tells doesn’t exclusively belong to her. At the heart of Simone’s novel is a tragedy that also happened to Tess and Hat – her two childhood best friends.

As it becomes harder to prise fact from fiction, one person’s memory and story from another’s, the book threatens to derail all their friendships, bringing old traumas to the surface of the small coastal community where they grew up and stirring its perpetrators, who want to make it all go away.

Curriculum Links:

One Night relates to the following learning areas:

• English (Years 10, 11 and 12)
• Essential English (Senior Students)
• Humanities and Social Science – Modern History (Senior Students)
• Media (VET Students)

It can also be linked to the general capabilities of Literacy, Ethical Understanding , Critical and Creative Thinking and Personal and Social Capability.