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Event 07.
Family Stories: A Literary History of the Family

Fiona Evans
  1. Saturday 24 October
  2. 12.15pm - 1.15pm
  3. The Sage Gateshead, Northern Rock Foundation Hall

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way", said the novelist Leo Tolstoy. Is he right?

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