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Purple and Other Hues

Barbara Gurney

Publisher: Ginninderra Press

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Summary

Barbara Gurney’s award-winning stories sit on an easel of storytelling, within a collection of multicoloured work. From ‘Purple’, a powerful story of the lasting effects of meningococcal, through shades of pink, white, silver and the bleakest of black, to ‘By Darkened Shore’, where the struggle for independence is won.
Available since: 03/08/2018.

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