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Friends & Other Strangers Award-winning Short Stories From Downunder
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A collection of short stories all set in Australia.

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Brenda
From the very first, Rose Coloured Minute sets the pace – we go along for the ride with Marianne as she spends the most excruciating minute of her life, waiting for the lines on the test to give her the answer she so desperately wants…

Window without Glass tells of Cerisa from Australia who is backpacking around Turkey. After getting lost she comes across Leyla who has never ventured from her village…

Visiting Rites is touching and sad, deep and meaningful.

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Vicki Tyley
Nov 17, 2013 rated it it was amazing
A wonderfully eclectic collection of distinctly Australian short stories, each with its own message. The stories are evocative and invoke all the senses.

The heartbreaking tale of Visiting Rites is especially powerful and tugs at the deepest parts of the psyche.