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17 October 2015

9:00 AM

17 October 2015

9:00 AM

A first novel, written in a ‘gothic’ style while the author was undertaking a creative writing course, published in 2000 to critical praise before becoming a best seller, translated into several languages, made into a feature film with an international cast; now that sounds more like a fairy story but it is the story so far of Rosalie Ham’s book The Dressmaker.

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