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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Ron Cerabona

How a book about a boy's year of darkness and light became a hit play

Conor Leach, left and Karen Crone in Fourteen. Picture by David Fell

Any author might be apprehensive about seeing their book adapted to a different medium.

When the book deals with a particularly harrowing period in that author's life, that trepidation can only increase.

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