The Book of Speculation
Erika Swyler
Allen & Unwin, RRP $29.99
July 2015
Many, many years ago I enrolled in a fiction writing class at the CAE. It was the very first writing class I’d ever been to and I can’t recall if I learnt anything useful but I did learn that some people are just not very nice.
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