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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Black Glass
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'Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.

The girls had always imagined that beyond the remote regions lay another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless and alone, the city is a dangerous place — a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people like themselves are confined to life's shady margins. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other — or just to survive.' (From the publisher's website.)

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Notes

  • Dedication: For my family with love and gratitude.
  • Epigraph:
    The eyes cannot be guilty of tresspass.

    -Old English law

    I have passed by the watchman on his beat
    And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

    -Robert Frost, 'Acquainted with the Night'
  • Near-future dystopian fiction.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2010
    • Carlton North, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Scribe , 2011 .
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      Extent: 281p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: March 2011
      ISBN: 9781921640933 (pbk.)

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