Stories as salvation

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  • Published 20131203
  • ISBN: 9781922079992
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

I WAS ONLY a child when I faced death for the first time.

Aged just two years and four months old, I was savaged by my father’s doberman pinscher in the back garden of our home in the Artarmon veterinary hospital. I was tossed like a rag doll, my ear was torn from my head and the dog’s fangs penetrated straight through the thin bone of my skull and into the brain. My left eye was missed by a fraction of a millimetre.

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Kate Forsyth

Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and is now the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of thirty-five books. She has...

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