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Catherine Ray

Stepping Out: A novel by Catherine Ray, translated by Julie Rose

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February 2009, no. 308
Denise O’Dea reviews 'Stepping Out: A novel' by Catherine Ray, translated by Julie Rose

Faced with the publication of her first novel, the narrator of Stepping Out has a terrifying thought. ‘I was about to be unmasked,’ she realises. ‘End of my double life. Everyone was about to dip into my world and find out what was really cooking there ... I felt like I’d placed a bomb and was waiting, under cover, for it to explode.’

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