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A writer’s craft: a conversation with Melina Marchetta

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imageLooking for Alibrandi (1992).Penguin Books

We fell in love with Josephine Alibrandi’s humour, we came to respect Taylor Markham’s tenacity in the face of adversity, and we quietly rooted for Tom Mackee. We found ourselves immersed in the...

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