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Elizabeth Best is an Australian author from Bendigo, Victoria. [1]

The Year We Seized the Day (2007) co-authored with Colin Bowles, is a non-fiction travel book describing the two authors' shared journey along the Camino de Santiago. It is an Amazon.com bestseller and continues to sell internationally. [2] [3] [4]

Elizabeth Best is the daughter of Ron Best.

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