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    Looking for Bianca: a short story
    Looking for Bianca: a short story
    Looking for Bianca: a short story
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    Looking for Bianca: a short story

    By Alexandra Davies

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    In this short story, follow Tara on a journey to Italy that she hopes will also be a step in her journey to healing. After the death of her sister, Tara's friendships, family relationships, work performance, physical health and mental health suffer as she struggles to escape her grief. Will visiting a magical garden her sister told her about help her take that first step to recovery?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexandra Davies
    Release dateMay 19, 2014
    ISBN9781311113856
    Looking for Bianca: a short story
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    Alexandra Davies

    Alexandra Davies is a prodigal daughter of fiction writing, having given it up in her early 20s when she was trying to be cool, and returning to it in her 30s when she decided to try being herself. Alexandra lives in Western Australia, where another of her stories was recently shortlisted for the Peter Cowan Writers Centre 600 short story competition.

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