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    Purple patch

    May 30, 2021 2 minutes
    by DAVID HILL

    ‘A novel that punches you in the heart,” pants the blurb. Better than one that knees you in the groin, I suppose.

    Later, the same blurb gasps that Aussie author Campbell Mattinson’s debut fiction is “heart-hammeringly original”. Literature as myocardial infarction?

    certainly gets off to one heck of

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