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    It’s hell out there

    Oct 04, 2020 2 minutes
    by CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW

    hen Francie is admitted to a Tasmanian hospital, her adult children, Anna, Tommy and Terzo, refuse to let her die, instead subjecting her to the pain and distress of aggressive medical interventions. She spends the whole of Richard Flanagan’s new novel trapped in a pitiful state while her children ignore her pleas for release. As Francie

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