Authors: Colleen McCullough
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First published in Australia in 2013
This edition published in 2013
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
McCullough, Colleen, 1937- author.
Bittersweet / Colleen McCullough.
978 0 7322 9820 3 (pbk)
978 1 4607 0127 0 (epub)
Nurses—Australia—Fiction.
Twins—Australia—Fiction.
Depressions—1929—Australia—Fiction.
Australia—Politics and government—20th century—Fiction.
A823.3
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