PREVIOUS BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Poetry
The Bleeding Ballerina
Moody Bitch
Short Stories
The Glass Whittler
All the Tenderness Left in the World
Novels
Crimes by Neglect
The Heart’s Wild Surf
The Whistler
Belief
The Shag Incident
Music From a Distant Room
Copyright
National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Stephanie, 1961—
Drowned sprat and other stories / Stephanie Johnson.
ISBN 1-86941-678-3
I. Title
NZ823.2—dc 22
A VINTAGE BOOK
published by
Random House New Zealand
18 Poland Road, Glenfield, Auckland, New Zealand
www.randomhouse.co.nz
First published 2005
© 2005 Stephanie Johnson
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
ISBN 978 1 77553 025 1
Text design: Elin Termannsen
Cover design: Katy Yiakmis
Printed in Australia by Griffin Press
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