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First published 2018

This ebook edition published 2018

 

Philip Larkin’s ‘In times when nothing stood’ from Collected Works quoted with permission by Faber and Faber Ltd.

Lyrics from ‘Little Dreamer’ by Future Islands reprinted with permission from the band and Upset the Rhythm.

Quotation from Carol © Patricia Highsmith, 1990, Carol, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., Little, Brown Book Group and W.W. Norton.

From the poem ‘One Last Poem for Richard’ in the collection My Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra Cisneros. Copyright © 1987 by Sandra Cisneros. By special arrangement with Third Woman Press. Published by Vintage Books in paperback and ebook, in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, and originally by Third Woman Press. By permission of Susan Bergholz Literary Services, New York, NY and Lamy, NM. All rights reserved.

 

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A catalogue entry for this book is available from the National Library of Australia

ISBN: 9781760681807 (paperback)

ISBN: 9781760681814 (ebook)

ISBN: 9781760681821 (mobi)