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A wing & a prayer

THE SPARROW, by Tessa Duder (Penguin, $22)

Spoiler alert: the author dedicates her first work of fiction for young readers in 20 years “to the memory of the women and girls cruelly and unjustly convicted, transported and imprisoned 12,000 miles from their homeland, to those who died and those who, against all odds, survived”.

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