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Mary-Rose MacColl
Memories and secrets buried for over twenty years surfaced after Mary-Rose MacColl gave birth to a much longed-for baby.
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‘A thoughtful, multi-layered tale that probes the stories we tell ourselves about family and friendship, power and control. MacColl’s writing deftly - yet gently - explores the nature of courage…
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I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame ..
Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to swim in the warm waters of her Australian home as she’s always done. Her aunt Louisa wants her to pursue an education instead. A chance…
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Originally published in Australia in 2012.
The bestselling author of In Falling Snow returns with a spellbinding tale of friendship, love and loyalty.
A vivid and compelling story of love, war and secrets, set against the backdrop of WWI France
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First published as The true story of Maddie Bright by Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2019 –Title page verso.
The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl, wasn’t Oxford or Cambridge, wasn’t a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine…
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In 1920, 17-year-old Maddie Bright gratefully accepts a job as a serving girl on the royal tour of Australia by Edward, Prince of Wales. Maddie’s talents soon earn her the…
