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- ↑ Benn, Melissa (4 May 2012). "If You Sit Very Still by Marian Partington - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ↑ Marian Partington, Salvaging the Sacred: Lucy, My Sister, originally published in The Guardian Weekend, 18 May 1996 and reissued by Quaker Books, 2004
- 1 2 Galvin, Cathy (28 April 2012). "Life after Lucy". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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