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    Lifting the veil

    Dec 12, 2021 2 minutes
    by CHRIS MOORE

    The novelist Dodie Smith once compared family to “a dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape”.

    Alexander McKinnon appears to relish being enfolded by the many arms of his family’s history. Come Back to Mona Vale, his first book, began life in 2020 as a prizewinning essay for Landfall.

    Both essay and book focus

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