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Fiction

Joy amid the frustrations

Who’s taking you to the dance? by Sally Morrison

by Georgia Savage
June 1980, no. 21

Who’s taking you to the dance? by Sally Morrison

Champion Publications, $5, 226 pp

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Australia has a tradition of brilliant female writers. With this book, her first novel, Sally Morrison has joined them.

It’s a knockout.

If she had used a simple narrative form, I’m sure she’d have made as much money as the lady who wrote The Thorn Birds. Luckily for us, she didn’t. She fashioned a work of art instead.

 


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Who’s taking you to the dance? by Sally Morrison

Champion Publications, $5, 226 pp

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


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