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Notes on a hospital gown

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  • Published 20251104
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-13-5
  • Extent: 196pp
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a person stands wearing a pink hospital gown tied at the front

IN MY DREAMS, I see my body on the narrow slab of the operating table, naked from the hips up in a splendour of blood, tissue, cartilage, fascia, flesh and bone. My breasts lie on my upper body, peeled clean from my chest wall, and I wonder what strength it takes to do that – to peel a young girl’s tits off her body. 

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Carly-Jay Metcalfe

Carly-Jay Metcalfe’s memoir, Breath, was published by UQP in 2024 to critical acclaim, winning the The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award....

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