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Andrea Bramhall is a British writer. Her novel Clean Slate won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance. She's also been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance twice and Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery twice.
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- ↑ "26th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists And Winners". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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