All the things I should’ve given

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  • Published 20181106
  • ISBN: 9781925603330
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

ONE OF THE nice things about having a baby was how the old Italian lady next door changed.

‘It’s weird,’ Abbey said after they brought Xan home from the hospital. ‘You’d think dykes having babies together would be worse than dykes on their own.’

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