The Book of Ordinary People
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A note on spelling and translations: decisions on spelling for the anglicised Greek and Persian are based on consultation with a number of native speakers and translators. While I have endeavoured to ensure the wording and phrasing is ‘correct’, the language also reflects how language evolves following migration and is changed through everyday use.
About Claire Varley
Claire Varley’s debut novel The Bit in Between was released in 2015. Her fiction and non-fiction work has been published widely, and she has coordinated community development projects in Australia and overseas, including remote Solomon Islands and with refugee and asylum seeker communities in Melbourne’s outer north.
This book was written and takes place on the lands of the Kulin nation, and the author pays her respects to Elders and community past and present.
Also by Claire Varley
The Bit in Between
This is a work of fiction. Characters, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously without any intention to describe actual conduct.
First published 2018 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
1 Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000
Copyright © Claire Varley 2018
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