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    612-822-4611

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The Strong Dress

The Strong Dress

Vertigan, Meg

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1922571644
ISBN13: 9781922571649
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Published: Feb 1 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

It is 1977 and Kate is a seventeen-year-old HSC student from Sydney's North Shore. She has dreams of becoming the next Ita Buttrose and being the editor of Cleo. Yet the 1970's free love and peace vibe has not yet hit Kate's suburban home in Beecroft. Kate's carefree behaviour leads her parents to seek the advice of Doctor Jack Grafton, a maverick psychiatrist. Kate is subsequently subjected to Slumber Therapy where she is given a cocktail of drugs that leave her confused about what is real. The second part of the novel witnesses the decline of Grafton who claimed he could cure all mental illness, after multiple deaths of his patients. After Jack's suicide, a bereaved fellow psychiatrist attempts to tell the story of his sharp-minded gregarious friend and defends his increasingly irrational behaviour in the lead-up to his death.

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