Bittersweet (47 page)

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First published in Australia in 2013

This edition published in 2013

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Copyright © Colleen McCullough 2013

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

McCullough, Colleen, 1937- author.

Bittersweet / Colleen McCullough.

978 0 7322 9820 3 (pbk)

978 1 4607 0127 0 (epub)

Nurses—Australia—Fiction.

Twins—Australia—Fiction.

Depressions—1929—Australia—Fiction.

Australia—Politics and government—20th century—Fiction.

A823.3

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