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Author interview: ‘I took a risk publishing this book but it meant a lot to me’

Heather Clark: The current rise of authoritarianism in Europe and the US has troubled her. Picture: Beowulf Sheehan

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Sue Leonard

  • The Scrapbook 
  • Heather Clark
  • Jonathan Cape, €17.99

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