The geometry lesson

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  • Published 20101207
  • ISBN: 9781921656187
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

THERE WERE THREE things I knew then that time has never erased.

We made a triangle, back when we lived on the curved banks of the Murrumbidgee. My mother was the angle on the top, and my father and I were the two beneath.

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Jewelene Barrile

Jewelene Barrile lives in Melbourne with her family where she is a writer and a buyer for an independent bookstore. Her previous endeavours included...

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