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Sue Leonard | Alison Walsh
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Posted by Sue Leonard on Tuesday 4th August 2015. WHEN Alison Walsh’s elder son saw the cover of her debut novel, he was a little alarmed. Underneath the title, All That I Leave Behind, was the sentence, What makes a mother abandon her children? Looking at her, carefully, he said, Mum, is that a plan? The mum of three roars with laughter at the memory. I said, ‘no dear! I love reading that kind of thing; books like Gone with the Wind, Jane Smilie’s One Thousand Acres, and Mary Lawson’s Crow Lake. With th...
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