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How the Light Gets In
Foreign Visitors
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Suburban life
Illinois, fiction
Bildungsromans
Australia, fiction
Family problems
Fiction, coming of age
Adolescence
United states, fiction
Young women, fiction
Teenage girls
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Fiction
A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction. Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student place…
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