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Friday essay: how Blanche d’Alpuget’s ‘warts and all’ biography of her lover Bob Hawke helped make him prime minister
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Blanche D’Alpuget was born in 1944, the daughter of Lou d’Alpuget and Josie Stephenson, and grew up in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. She attended Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and, briefly, the University of Sydney before becoming…