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    Oct 09, 2019 4 minutes

    Lyrical fiction

    There Was Still Love

    by Favel Parrett , Hachette. Review by Juliet Rieden

    Two sisters are now grandmothers of two children living in different countries, Australia and the Czech Republic. And while history and circumstance has separated them, their bond is strong and their love runs poignantly deep. The story is set in 1980 but flits back in time as well and is told through the eyes of the children. There’s free-spirited Ludek who lives in Prague with his Babi (grandma) and loves to run around its cobbled streets shouting at the statues of the saints on Charles Bridge; and “Mala Liska” as she is called by

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