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Fiction

Salt and tradition

by Wendy Were
September 2013, no. 354

Elemental by Amanda Curtin

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 448 pp, 9781742585062

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Amanda Curtin’s second novel, Elemental, tells the story of Margaret (Meggie) Duthie Tulloch. Meggie, an old woman who is dying of leukaemia, writes her life story in a series of notebooks intended to be a twenty-first birthday present to her granddaughter, Laura, who grew up clamouring for tales of ‘Fish Meggie, The Gutting Girl from the Top of the World’.

 


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Elemental by Amanda Curtin

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 448 pp, 9781742585062

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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