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Joy amid the frustrations

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June 1980, no. 21

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

Champion Publications, $5, 226 pp

Joy amid the frustrations

by
June 1980, no. 21

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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