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Emily Perkins

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About the Author

Emily Perkins was born in New Zealand in 1970. She is the author of the short story collection Not Her Real Name, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl. She lives in New Zealand and London with her husband and three young children.

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