Southern Ruby (62 page)

BELINDA ALEXANDRA
has been published to wide acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Norway, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and the United States. She is the daughter of a Russian mother and an Australian father and has been an intrepid traveller since her youth. Her love of other cultures is matched by her passion for her home country, Australia, where she is a volunteer carer for the New South Wales Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES). An animal lover, Belinda is also the patron of the World League for the Protection of Animals (Australia).

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First published in Australia in 2016

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Copyright © Belinda Alexandra 2016

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ISBN: 978 0 7322 9644 5 (paperback)

ISBN: 978 1 7430 9832 5 (ebook)

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Creator: Alexandra, Belinda, author.

Title: Southern Ruby / Belinda Alexandra.

Subjects: Family secrets – Fiction.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 – Fiction.

New Orleans (La.) – Fiction.

A823.4

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