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First published 1994 by Pan Macmillan Publishers Australia
First published by The Text Publishing Company in 2008
This edition published 2009

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Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Dark places / Kate Grenville.
ISBN 9781921520259 (pbk.)
Self-esteem--Fiction. Family--Fiction.
A823.3