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    Off the shelf

    Jan 20, 2021 3 minutes
    COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE

    RURAL DREAMS

    MARGARET HICKEY, MIDNIGHT SUN PUBLISHING, $24.99

    Margaret Hickey grew up in country towns across Victoria and travelled overseas extensively before settling with her husband and sons in Victoria’s north east. This collection of short stories casts an unflinchingly accurate gaze on rural Australia and provides fresh insight into the people who live there. From a chance encounter on a desolated beach and a young man returning from the city for a weekly football match, to a woman attempting to build a new life in her childhood home after a bushfire, and a couple visiting a country pub

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