As I finished the last of the book (the earlier part of the review linked here)….I could not help myself.
Error X, pages 216 and 218: A single member of the New South Wales police force referred to by the surname Blare, Blair or Blaire.
Error Y, page 219: A dog that within three sentences is firstly named “Duchess” and then answers to “Dutches”
Error Z, page 245: A call for “Austrian justice” to be carried out in Australia.
And yet
among all those errors there was the (unforgivable-in-Australian-publishing?) error. On page 236: the
dating of Anzac
Day’s origins to Australian and New Zealand troops fighting in the year
1951. "1951" contains the reversal of 1 and 5 yet a good editor would have quickly made the change to 1915.
Shalom,
Ozhamada
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