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'Maggie is struggling to balance work and family – a familiar story to many. She is also obsessed with the history of a handmade dress collar she has found in a box of discarded items while working her high-powered job at an auction house. ...'
'Any work of historical fiction hinges on its research quality, as Natasha Lester discovered Natasha Lester could have researched her book from the comfort of her Western Australia home, but for authenticity and to get her hands on original documents, the author wanted to visit the locations that appear in her latest book, A Kiss From Mr Fitzgerald. Little did the Perth-based writer know that her much-anticipated research trip to New York would land her in the midst of one of the worst storms in US history – Hurricane Sandy. ...'