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"An elderly Australian woman lets a mysterious and possibly sinister caretaker into her beach-side home and into her life"--
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Intimate, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Fiona McFarlane
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Brilliance Audio, Penguin Group Australia
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781444786057
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