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Sharon Mullins, Senior Tutor, Publishing and Editing, The University of Melbourne

A publishing insider’s debut novel includes a fiery author affair and a mystery manuscript. Is any of it real?

Caro Llewellyn Alexis Jabour/Pan Macmillan

Caro Llewellyn’s successful nonfiction publications include her 2019 Stella Prize shortlisted memoir Diving into Glass. That book begins and ends with her experience of multiple sclerosis, which was first diagnosed in 2009, while she was programming the PEN World Voices Festival in New York.

Her first foray into fiction draws on her extensive background in the literary sector, which includes working in publishing, directing the Sydney Writers Festival and being CEO of Melbourne’s The Wheeler Centre.

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