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Rachel Hennessy

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Dr Rachel Hennessy is the award-winning author of five novels: The Quakers (2008), The Heaven I Swallowed (2013), River Stone (2019), Mountain Arrow (2020) and City Knife (2023). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. 

Specialises in: 

  • Novels 
  • Young adult 
  • Literary fiction 
  • Short stories 
  • Creative nonfiction 
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