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    <![CDATA[Balancing on the Edge of the World]]>
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    <![CDATA[These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it - the boy caught between divorced parents, the arts worker conman, the avenging wife. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always surprising: for it's a slippery thing, power, and nothing is ever quite what it seems ...]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're interested in traditional stories with beginnings, middles and endings with plots and clearly-defined characters then this may not be the book for you. If you subscribe to the slice-of-life school of storytelling and you believe that a story can get by with a point rather than a plot and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71750822">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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