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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Looking for Alibrandi Author Melina Marchetta Takes to Literary Crime
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'There was a time when Melina Marchetta resented the success of her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi, a beloved Australian book for young adults.'

'Marchetta followed up 11 years later with Saving Francesca, also set in Sydney's inner west, and for a while she felt typecast as a writer of "good stories about Italian girls in the suburbs". ...'

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  • Includes portrait of Author Melina Marchetta

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    y separately published work icon Brisbane Times 30 September 2016 10193215 2016 newspaper issue 2016
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