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Woman of State is a smart novel that crackles with the authenticity youd expect from the author's own astonishing background

Soon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat

Rosa takes a job as a supply drama teacher in the tough local comprehensive to which her two teenage children - a seventeen-year-old son and a fourteen-year-old daughter - also attend

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Years after The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed Crossroad Blues an impressive debut by a promising new talent

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