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' North coast, New South Wales. Clementine is twenty-five and still living in the place where she grew up, rooted there by memories and her own inability to make changes until she has understood her past. That past is dominated by memories of her mother, and her mother's attempts to dramatise and enrich small-town life and the perceptions of her three clever , receptive daughters.' Publisher's blurb. Inside of front cover.
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Dedication: In memory of Sheila and for my sisters and for Alan.
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Epigraph: ' Memory is more than one bargains for. I mean, if it goes on like this, this sense of past, past, past, that can turn even the happiest memories to griefs.' Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus
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