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Kimberley freemans wildflower hill is one of the most enchanting, engrossing and poignant novels ive read in a long time. It amazed me how freeman, using just the right word when describing a person cut right to the heart of the matter. Wildflower hill by kimberley freeman is a beautifully written novel that moves back and forth in time between modernday and 1920s50s great britain and australia, following the lives of beattie blaxland and her granddaughter, emma. One thing she never dreamed was that she would find herself pregnant to her married lover.
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