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EDDY, EDDY, by Kate De Goldi, Allen & Unwin, $30, is out next week.

have to be honest. I have not loved a book this much since Barbara Trapido’s , that debut 1982 coming-of-age novel, which followed in the tradition of Dodie Smith’s 1949 I’ve read Kate De Goldi’s new novel twice, slowly, so as not to miss a single detail, and

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