Fishing for Pike, by Antoinette McCarthy
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A coming-of-age tale of a mother/daughter relationship, this is a story that grew out of the writer's experiences working with young people during the pandemic. She says "in a world of constantly evolving risks it really highlighted for me the need for us all to keep talking"
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