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'I haven't read a book in years but read yours in four days. I could smell the smells and felt the feelings I had back in time'. (Nick Ranieri) 'A cracking read from beginning to end. Chris brings forth the sounds and smells of Fitzroy and the surrounding suburbs, transporting us back to another era of Australian migrant history'. (Mike Long) 'My husband & l travelled from Ballarat (116 km) for your launch Chris, and it was worth every mile! My husband didn't even grow up in Fitzroy, but l'm having trouble getting to your book, he has been reading it every spare minute he has, then hides it!!' (Jane Furneaux) 'An intriguing and detailed story'. (Peter Woods, Past President of the Fitzroy History Society) 'Roy Boy was an excellent book. I'm sure a lot of people will read it and see much of their own childhoods depicted within those pages!' (Craig Davies)

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Christopher Bennett was born and raised in the working-class suburb of Fitzroy in the 1950s and 1960s. A cheeky and boisterous kid of migrant parents, he roamed the streets and nearby haunts for fun and adventure and found much more than he bargained for.Roy Boy took eleven years to write because life kept getting in the way. Other than writing, Chris has been a Tai Chi practitioner and teacher for more than 35 years and loves spending time photographing the world around him.Though life has taken him out of Fitzroy to live among the gum trees and kookaburras of the Dandenong Ranges, he still considers himself a Roy Boy. Wherever he goes, Fitzroy will always be with him - it's part of his DNA.

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