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Julie Sprigg Julie Sprigg i(14921554 works by)
Gender: Female
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In 2019, Fremantle Press acquired Julie Sprigg's memoir Chewing Porridge, which outlined her work as a physiotherapist in poor areas of Ethiopia. The manuscript was shortlisted for the 2018 T.A.G. Hungerford Award.

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y separately published work icon Small Steps : A Physio in Ethiopia Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2020 18882358 2020 single work autobiography

'This heartfelt memoir and travel story is about an idealistic young woman forced to confront the limitations of how much difference she can make in a country rich in culture but stark in its deprivations. Julie Sprigg spent three years in Ethiopia, volunteering at a convent clinic and then teaching the first physiotherapy cohort to ever graduate from Gondar University. In Ethiopia she falls in love, and learns as much about herself as she does about this complex, magnificent country and its people.'(Publication summary) 

2018 shortlisted City of Fremantle Hungerford Award as 'Chewing Porridge: Fixing up and Breaking Down in Ethiopia'.
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