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This book captured my attention with its gorgeous Australian cover and kept it with its clever representation of religious belief and human nature. I grew to love it as I read it, and by the time the protagonist entered into adulthood, I was completely hooked.
Maguire took a myth and made her human—with all the complexities that entails. It’s a story of religion and reality, concerned with both the body and the soul, and it’s magical and rational at the same time.
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