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Fiction
by Milly Main
June 2012, no. 342

A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows

Pan Macmillan, $26.99, 342 pp, 9781742611013

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Deborah Burrows’s well-researched historical novel, A Stranger in My Street, begins with the protagonist, Meg Eaton, declaring that Sunday, 3 January 1943 was the day her life changed forever. We quickly learn why – the Stranger of the title has arrived in the eponymous Street.

 


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A Stranger in My Street by Deborah Burrows

Pan Macmillan, $26.99, 342 pp, 9781742611013

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