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Mrs Gulliver’s travails

n an author’s note, Australian novelist Lauren Chater says she was inspired to write by reading and finding that the eponymous figure hardly ever mentioned his wife. So she decided to balance things by writing a novel about the wife Gulliver ignored and how she might have fared in the

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