Across the Bass Strait

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  • Published 20130305
  • ISBN: 9781922079961
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

This piece by Favel Parrett, published by Griffith Review in 2013, was a precursor to her 2014 book, When the Night Comes.

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