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Alex and Leah meet at medical school and form an immediate and intense connection. Over the course of four years, they are caught in the push-pull of passion and betrayal, longing and reunion. Neither can quite give up the relationship, even as they question whether they are good for each other.Years later, when Alex and Leah are drawn together once more, will they make the right choice?New Skin evokes a coming of age in the 1990s and charts the course of first love and its power to shape who we become. Spare and compelling, this powerful debut introduces a dazzling new voice in Australian fiction.'A testament to the transformative power of love, New Skin delivers a brutally passionate and profoundly heartfelt love story with characters that will stay with you long after the final pages.' - Amy Taylor, author of Search History and Ruins'For anyone who has ever been young, this book is a time machine. If you have ever been complicatedly in love, it's a ballad. If you are like me and you were young and in love and at uni in Melbourne and it was the 1990s, it's a bloody documentary. Capturing each surge, halt, spin and derangement of youthful romance, Miranda Nation's beautifully attentive nouveau grunge novel offers us two people, their innocence and instinct, and all the ways they can pull each other apart-and together.' - Kate Holden, author of In My Skin'Grunge lit makes a comeback in Miranda Nation's debut, New Skin... a Gen X love story charting the throes of youth during the years in which ""heroin chic"" was a thing. The precise, unsentimental portrait of Melbourne youth culture at the time will immediately seduce and appal anyone who lived through it (raises hand), and for others, it serves as a welcome addition to the contemporary Australian grunge literature from that epoch - Luke Davies' Candy or Christos Tsiolkas' Loaded, say - which tended to be male-dominated.' SMH/The Age 'Nation has created two fascinating characters and an intellectually provocative, sexy, saucy story. Intensely and insistently sensual and ferociously honest, New Skin is formidably literate and erotic.' Sydney Arts Guide

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Miranda Nation is an award-winning writer and director. Originally working as an actor, Miranda trained at Jacques Lecoq in Paris (2003-05), before shifting her focus to writing and directing, completing a Graduate Diploma in Directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2010). Miranda's original six-part series as creator/writer/EP, Playing Gracie Darling, will premiere on Paramount+ in 2025. Miranda's critically acclaimed debut feature as writer/director, Undertow, premiered at Melbourne International Film Festival and was released in cinemas in early 2020. Her short film, Perception, won the Dendy Award for Best Short Film at the 2014 Sydney Film Festival. Miranda has a slate of feature and long-form projects in development with leading production houses.

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