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The Mary Smokes Boys: A Novel

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Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award

A heart-rending and suspenseful story of siblings whose relationship with their world, and each other, is put to the ultimate test


Grey's mother dies giving birth to his sister Irene and he prays that she will be returned to him so he might protect her from the world as his father did not. This prayer, Grey believes, is answered in his sister Irene. He becomes obsessed with protecting her purity and innoc...