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Published
Brio Books, September 2022
ISBN
9781761281273
Format
Softcover, 378 pages

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An award-winning collection of wartime letters from a young Gwen Harwood, living with her family in Brisbane and yet to become an award-winning poet, to Thomas Riddell, a soldier stationed in Darwin.

First published in 1990, this collection won the The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction in that same year.

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