Happy morning tea. For those who have returned to work this week, well done on making it through the first few hours of Monday. Welcome to Five Great Reads, your summertime, weekday wrap of fantastic features, selected by me, Guardian Australia’s lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman.
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