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DANCING WITH THE OCTOPUS

by Debora Harding (Allen & Unwin, RRP $39.99)

In 1978, author Debora Harding, then aged 14, was abducted, raped and left to die. It’s not until the 1990s that she suffers from PTSD, in part prompted by her mother claiming she made it all up (spoiler alert: she

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