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Lies I Told About A Girl by Anson Cameron

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June-July 2006, no. 282

Lies I Told About A Girl by Anson Cameron

Picador, $22 pb, 276 pp

Lies I Told About A Girl by Anson Cameron

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June-July 2006, no. 282

Anson Cameron’s Lies I Told about a Girl may not bend the public record enough to qualify as ‘alternate history’, but it does take off from an intriguing speculative premise. What if the young Prince of Wales, sent ‘down under’ for a term at an exclusive boarding school deep in Victorian logging country, had arrived in 1975, the year of the Dismissal? And what if the prince – known here as Harold Romsey, or YR (‘Your Royal’) – had become romantically involved with a fellow student who happened to be the daughter of the federal opposition leader?

Lies I Told About A Girl

Lies I Told About A Girl

by Anson Cameron

Picador, $22 pb, 276 pp

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