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  • Published 20150203
  • ISBN: 9781922182678
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Leavings I: 1928

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Amanda Curtin

Amanda Curtin is a writer, book editor and adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She has published two novels, Elemental (UWA Press, 2014), shortlisted...

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