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Why Trent Dalton needed to ‘run a mile’ from his hit debut novel – Sydney Morning Herald
The bestselling author says his new book, All Our Shimmering Skies, is the one he always wanted to write.
But Dalton says Boy Swallows Universe was also the book he had to get out of his system in order to write the novel he always wanted to write, All Our Shimmering Skies, which is out on Monday. Those readers who begged for a sequel will find themselves in a very different universe. It’s one where the sky delivers gifts, curses hover, and rollicking adventures await to be had.
Set in wartime Darwin in 1942, the novel follows 12-year-old Molly Hook, the motherless daughter of the town’s gravedigge…
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