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THE GREAT ESCAPE FROM WOODLANDS NURSING HOME

By Joanna Nell (Hachette, RRP $34.99)

“Don’t grow old,” my recently widowed father likes to say. “It isn’t fun.”

Dad lives in a retirement village in Queensland, the kind where Joanna Nell’s novel is set.

Yet Joanna’s characters do manage to have fun, eventually. Hattie

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