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  <name><![CDATA[Monica McInerney]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Monica McInerney is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels including  Upside Down Inside Out, Family Baggage, The Alphabet Sisters and The Faraday Girls (which was named the General Fiction Book of the Year in the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards.) Her latest novel Greetings from Somewhere Else will be published in the USA in July 2009.

Monica, 44, grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley wine region of South Australia, where her father was the railway stationmaster and her mother worked in the local library. Before becoming a full-time writer she worked in children’s television, tourism festivals, book publishing, arts marketing, the music industry and as a waitress, a hotel cleaner, a Kindergym instructor and a temp. For the past eighteen years she and her Irish husband have been moving back and forth between Australia and Ireland. They currently live in Dublin. 

Visit her website at www.monicamcinerney.com
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  <title><![CDATA[The Faraday Girls: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Alphabet Sisters: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Greetings from Somewhere Else: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Odd One Out]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Monica McInerney]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Taste for It]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[All together now]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Neues Leben - Die Bibel. Tropfendesign]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Küsse zum Dessert / Liebe auf Umwegen]]></title>
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