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'Eleanor Limprecht’s new historical novel The Coast recreates a lost world that was once damned to obscurity. Set in a formerly remote coastal area known as Little Bay, just outside of Sydney, her book imagines a series of characters forced into quarantine after being diagnosed with leprosy.' (Introduction)
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Set in a 19th Century Australian Leper Colony, Eleanor Limprecht’s The Coast Depicts Past Cruelties, but Has Powerful Things to Say about the Present
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