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    Asylum

    By Isobel Blackthorn

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    Seeking asylum from the wreckage of her life, Yvette Grimm arrives in Australia on a holiday visa. She applies for permanent residency with no hope of success. Resisting advice that she marry to stay in the country, Yvette invests her hopes in a palm-reader's prophecy that she will meet the father of her children before she's thirty. She's twenty-nine. Set in the excoriating heat of an endless Perth summer, against the backdrop of asylum seekers locked in detention, Asylum is a gripping tale of loss and belonging that is dark, absurd and hilarious by turns.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOdyssey Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9781922200235
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    Isobel Blackthorn

    Isobel Blackthorn holds a PhD for her ground breaking study of the texts of Theosophist Alice Bailey. She is the author of Alice a. Bailey: Life and Legacy and The Unlikely Occultist: a biographical novel of Alice A. Bailey. Isobel is also an award-winning novelist.

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