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Pauline Montagna was born into an Italian family in Melbourne, Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University, Pauline joined the Department of Social Security where it was decided that someone with a major in French would be perfect for the Finance section. Fortunately for them, as the daughter of shopkeepers, Pauline had a good head for figures.

Over many years, Pauline pursued her developing accounting skills through a wide variety of workplaces including the Australian film industry which eventually took her to Perth. There she decided to return to university and qualify as a teacher, graduating from Edith Cowan and Murdoch Universities with Graduate Diplomas in Language Studies and Education.

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I’ve been in Italy for three weeks now. They’ve been spent in my mother’s home village in the Basilicata region in southern Italy. Set in a beautiful valley, the Val d’Agri, which is especially green at the moment, Grumento Nova is a picturesque and ancient hilltop village, though after several earthquakes and with the depopulation of modernity many of its houses are crumbling and abandoned. Th...

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Average rating: 3.44 · 18 ratings · 8 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
Not Wisely but Too Well (Th...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
The Slave
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Suburban Terrors
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
The Other One (A Soothsayer...
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
High Stakes (A Soothsayer M...
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
Gone Missing (A Soothsayer ...
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
Secrets and Suspicions
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
Echoes
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
Desideratum
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
Ever the Bridesmaid
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In Search of Shakespeare (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 11, 2012 01:37am
Description: An ambitious scholar from the fourth millenium stakes his reputation on the genius of an obscure Elizabethan poet, one William Shakespeare.
May to December (History)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 11, 2012 01:04am
Description: Mrs Cross has waited a long time to become a respectable married woman, but what might seem like an idyllic honeymoon in Venice reveals a reality too painful to acknowledge
Disconnected (Humor)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 11, 2012 12:47am
Description: Has the mobile phone brought lovers closer together, or got in the way?
I'll always have Chiang Mai (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 11, 2012 12:37am
Description: A blind date comes to an unexpected conclusion.
The Beautiful Princess (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Sep 11, 2012 12:29am
Description: A young Prince undertakes heroic feats to win the hand of a Beautiful Princess, but the prize is not what he anticipated.
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date: April 13, 2013 12:00AM
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"To all my friends, I'll be travelling for the next few months and, as I can't guarantee regular access to the internet, I'll need to cut back on my on...more "
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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Pauline Montagna To all my friends, I'll be travelling for the next few months and, as I can't guarantee regular access to the internet, I'll need to cut back on my online activity, including Goodreads. If you would like to keep in touch you can follow me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pauline.mont... or visit my home page at http://paulinemontagna.net. I look forward to seeing you there.


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