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Book review: The Expatriates

THE world of the contract employee — a contradictory phrase in itself — is the setting of Janice YK Lee’s second novel.

Book review: The Expatriates

Sat, 17 Oct, 2015 - 01:00

Review: Mary Leland

Janice YK Lee

Little Brown, €22.10; ebook, €12.99

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