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Olivia Spooner: The Songbirds of Florence

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Olivia Spooner, the No.1 bestselling author of The Girl from London, joins us to talk about her new historical fiction, The Songbirds of Florence. 

Based on New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (W.A.A.C.) welfare workers – known as “the Tuis”, they were some of the first New Zealand women to serve overseas with the role of providing respite and a touch of home to weary soldiers returning from the frontline. 

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