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Alice in Winterland by Julie Egdell Michael Longley In her third full-length collectionGrowing up in Whitley Bay, Julie Egdell never knew how much she had in common with Lewis Carrolls Alice. But when she went to work in St Petersburg she discovered that she was the spitting image of the Russian version of Alice not Tenniels blonde school girl, but the dark haired Alisa of Soviet illustrated childrens stories, sarcastic and cruel and very Russian. A new city, a new language and a new identity. What could possibly go wrong? Alice in