Metro Australia — January 2018

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to make peace with her past and mend broken relationships.

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makers should be pursuing international audiences (who dislike
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has reconciled the isolation and obsession of her ‘real’ life.

Mel Campbell is a Melbourne-based freelance journalist and

cultural critic, author of the bookOut of Shape: Debunking

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