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    Dec 08, 2021 5 minutes
    REVIEWS ANNABEL LAWSON

    NELLIE

    Robert Wainwright, Allen & Unwin, $32.99

    There has to be a word for people who, whatever the situation, can make it so much worse. Nellie Melba was surrounded by them. Her father didn’t want her to leave their home in Queensland, he didn’t want her to go to Europe, he didn’t want her to sing.

    Nellie’s husband Charles Armstrong, an expatriate from Scotland, punched her in the face when she was pregnant, attacked her with his regimental sword, chased her with a razor, took her money, and kidnapped their son, George.

    The nine-year-old had been enjoying a whirl of salons and parties in Paris and London when Charles took him to a ranch in Texas and trained him to be loutish and master horses. George and his mother eventually

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