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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Dustfall : A Novel
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'Dr Raymond Filigree, running away from a disastrous medical career, mistakes an unknown name on a map for the perfect refuge. He travels to the isolated town of Wittenoom and takes charge of its small hospital, a place where no previous doctor has managed to stay longer than an eye blink. Instead of settling into a quiet, solitary life, he discovers an asbestos mining corporation with no regard for the safety of its workers and no care for the truth.

'Thirty years later, Dr Lou Fitzgerald stumbles across the abandoned Wittenoom Hospital. She, too, is a fugitive from a medical career toppled by a single error. Here she discovers faded letters and barely used medical equipment, and, slowly the story of the hospital's tragic past comes to her.

'Dustfall is the tale of the crashing consequences of medical error, the suffering caused by asbestos mining and the power of storytelling.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Julian, Isabelle, and Richard

  • Epigraph:

    St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!

    The owl, for all its feathers, was a-cold

    The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass,

    And silent was the flock in the woolly fold. - John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes, 1819

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    • Crawley, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2018 .
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      • Published: 1st February 2018
         

      ISBN: 9781742589640
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