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Sydney, December 1945. The war is finally over, and Annie Swift is young, beautiful, talented - and a mother. But Annie doesn't give in to the dull domestic life, she gives up her baby daughter, Zelda, instead. Zelda Steele leads a privileged, but desperately lonely life with her adoptive parents, wealthy patrons of the burgeoning avante-garde art scene. Zelda's been groomed to follow in her artist parents footsteps, and her adoptive parents are disappointed when she's not quite the prodigy they'd anticipated. It's not until her tragically early death - by suicide - that Zelda's remarkable…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Random House · 361 pages · 9781740513845
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