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New Plymouth author Jacqueline Bublitz, whose first novel is causing a stir. Two women, one exactly twice the age of the other, head to New York. Both are after new beginnings and a jettisoning of a troubled past, and what better city to remake yourself in? Alice is a just-turned 18-year-old from small-town Wisconsin who carries deep trauma from a family tragedy and a recent abusive relationship with a much older man; the other is Ruby, a 36-year-old Melburnian who hops on a plane to escape her addiction to a booty-call lover. He is also – a la