Five Bells

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Five Bells
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First published in Great Britain by Harvill Secker in 2011
First published in Australia by Vintage in 2011
This edition published in Australia by Vintage in 2012

National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Jones, Gail, 1955–
Five bells / Gail Jones
ISBN 978 1 86471 083 0 (pbk)

Life change events – Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.) – Fiction.

A823.3