Passage (4 page)

Caroline Overington is the author of two non-fiction books,
Only in New York
and
Kickback
, which won the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. She has twice won a Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence.

Sisters of Mercy
is her fourth novel, following the critically acclaimed
Ghost Child, I Came to Say Goodbye
and
Matilda is Missing
.

She lives in Bondi with her husband and their young twins.

Also by Caroline Overington

Fiction

Ghost Child

I Came to Say Goodbye

Matilda is Missing

Sisters of Mercy

Non-fiction

Only in New York

Kickback

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Passage

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First published in Australia in 2011, by the Australia Council for the Arts, in
10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011

National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Overington, Caroline.
Passage [electronic resource] / Caroline Overington.

9780857980564 (ebook)

Short stories, Australian.

A823.4

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