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    Nov 04, 2020 4 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    Literary fiction

    Infinite Splendours

    by Sofie Laguna , Allen & Unwin

    Author Sofie Laguna pulls us right inside the heads of her characters. We feel their confusion, their pain and their pleasure in the same way they do and to this we add our own understanding. The result is a unique union with her protagonists which is used to courageous effect in this mesmerising new novel. In that character is Lawrence, an intriguing lad with a sharp mind whose life is traumatically arrested at the very point he’s starting to realise his unique talents. We are in a fictional remote town in Victoria’s Southern Grampians where, in the shadow of Mount Wallis, widow Louise struggles to raise her two sons - bright spark Lawrence

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