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Leroy, whose fiction specializes in prickly mothers, turns from the paranormal yes, my darling daughter, 2009, etc. Margaret leroy has 14 books on goodreads with 44996 ratings. Is leroy using the fairy tales as symbols, or metaphors, or as a way of constructing a thematic statement for the book. The soldiers wife by pamela hart books hachette australia.
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