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And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? 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The extraterrestrials who appear in her stories (whether the inscrutably sadistic monsters in \"Duplicity\" or the members of a seminar studying late-1960s college behavior in \"The View from Venus: A Case Study\") seem stand-ins for the author herself, who, in elegant and witty prose, cultivates the eye of a curious alien and, along the way, unfolds eccentric plots that keep the pages turning.   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