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Robert Drewe on finding Australia’s child phenomenon: ‘I thought, “Why hasn’t anyone heard

The sepia lithograph in the National Library was irresistible to the novelist in Robert Drewe. Painted in 1866, a tiny boy in red shorts leans against a milestone on a winding English country road. On the milestone is a winner’s sash. John Day was the “Child Phenomenon from Australia”.He was 10 years old, weighed four stone and was undefeated…
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