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    A wild ride

    Sep 18, 2023 2 minutes

    BEATRIX & FRED

    by Emily Spurr (Text, $38)

    There has been a recent spate of particularly good novels that dissect women’s psychological wellbeing, including Meg Mason’s captivating account of undiagnosed mental health issues in and Gail Honeyman’s thoughtful examination of deep depression in Australian writer Emily Spurr follows in these literary footsteps with her second book, a weird and quite wonderful

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