the unexpected education of emily dean

Book Review: Mira Robertson’s The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean adds something new to well-trodden ground

In Mira Robertson’s debut novel, her eponymous heroine, Emily Dean, is sent to stay with her grandmother and great uncle on their property while her mother recovers from what I can only presume is a nervous breakdown of sorts.  It’s most definitely not a farm, as Emily is told by her family, though to the…

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