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- ISBN: 9780733320569
- Extent: 280 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)

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Lucy Lehmann
Lucy Lehmann is the author of The Showgirl and the Brumby (Vintage, 2002).A novelist by day, she first began playing music publicly in 2005 and continues...
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