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  • Published 20181029
  • ISBN: 9781925603330
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

THE SHRIEK OF the troop train woke Eddie as they pulled abruptly to a stop.

‘Where are we?’ he said, wiping his mouth and feeling for his rifle, as though it were another limb. His yammering heart calmed as he found it, the grain of the Enfield smooth under his fingers. They had their rifles to hand at all times now, went to sleep with them, as they might have with their teddies as small boys, though the rifles made poorer bedfellows.

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Victoria Carless

Victoria Carless is a playwright and fiction writer. Her first novel, The Dream Walker, was published by Hachette Australia in 2017, and was shortlisted...

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