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Life on a Refrigerator Door — the first post-it note novel

Read Alice Kuipers’ fascinating novel about a teenage girl and her mother putting post-it notes to each other on the fridge door. The novel is moving and emotional: there is a real drama revealed as we read through the notes, which initially seem so innocuous, consisting as they do of shopping lists and memoes. Amazon page for book.

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