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was published by Eris Press in 2024. Charting a woman’s voyage through love, loss and eventually freedom in 1980’s New York, Paris, London and Rome, it was described by John Self in the
Observer, as ‘concise, rigorous and heartbreaking,’ and ‘a literary masterpiece of grace and weight,’ by Helen
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