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'When I was a little girl, I hurt my arm and my mother took me to a different doctor, one I’d never been to before. He called me an ugly duckling. My mother laughed when he said it but I didn’t mind. Just as long as I had been hatched from a swan’s egg. Because, then, eventually, I would turn into a swan and nothing else would matter.'
This is seventeen-year-old Ruth's story of her determination to find a place for herself in a world very different from the one she had imagined as a child.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: 'he saw beneath him his own form, no longer that of a plump ugly grey bird - it was that of a swan.
It matters not to have been born in a duck yard, if one has been hatched from a swan's egg. – Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Ugly Duckling'
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[Review Essay] The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , 134 no. 134 2015; (p. 34) -
The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Tamba , Summer no. 55 2014; (p. 47)
— Review of The Swan's Egg 2014 single work novel 'The novel tells Ruth's story from her early chldhood through to her first class in Law School at University...' -
Review : The Swan's Egg
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Polestar , no. 27 2014; (p. 59-60)
— Review of The Swan's Egg 2014 single work novel
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Review : The Swan's Egg
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Polestar , no. 27 2014; (p. 59-60)
— Review of The Swan's Egg 2014 single work novel -
The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Tamba , Summer no. 55 2014; (p. 47)
— Review of The Swan's Egg 2014 single work novel 'The novel tells Ruth's story from her early chldhood through to her first class in Law School at University...' -
[Review Essay] The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , 134 no. 134 2015; (p. 34)