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    When Figs Fly
    When Figs Fly
    When Figs Fly
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    When Figs Fly

    By Jane Downing

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    Australian poet Jane Downing's When Figs Fly reveals life in Australia and beyond with a keen eye for poignant details that linger, deftly capturing the beauty of the natural world, the bittersweetness of childhood and memory and exploring the all-too familiar foibles of human nature.

     

    A widely published writer,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClose-Up Books
    Release dateJul 20, 2019
    ISBN9780648541165
    When Figs Fly
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    Jane Downing

    Jane Downing was born in Australia but was taken to live on Manus Island a month later. She has since lived in Tanzania, Ireland, Indonesia, the (then) USSR, China, the Marshall Islands and Guam. While living and working in the Marshall Islands, where truth was often stranger than fiction, she began to write. She now lives back in Australia.

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