Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret by Kerry Taylor

Mr Smith to You: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith - a life lived in secret by Kerry TaylorFront cover quote:'A heart warming, funny, salt of the earth story Mr Smith is impossible to forget .' Inga SimpsonBack cover quote:'A big hearted novel of vibrant characters who bring post war Australian history to life in this tale of courage, survival and redemption.' Joanne FelderTagline: A novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith a life lived in secret. For most of his 76 years, Bill Smith preferred solitude over socialising,

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trauma and survival

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I would be a green-feminist supermum

But as the years pass

But the Albatross Society

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