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Laura Elizabeth Woollett

About

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is a Melbourne-based author. Her short story collection The Love of a Bad Man (2016) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction in 2017.

Her latest novel, Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), follows a young couple who join Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in late 1960s California. She is currently working on her next book, The Newcomer, a murder mystery set on a fictional island. 

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