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'Small Acts of Defiance' had made its way through three satisfied readers before me and will be gone from my street library within an hour, guaranteed; it's exactly the kind of popular historical fiction that does well without anyone feeling embarrassed for having enjoyed it. Sixteen-year-old Lucie arrives in Paris from Australia in January 1940; she's painfully naive—of course she is, she's 16—but step by step she finds the small acts of defiance that are within her power. Others choose differently. Australian author Michelle Wright's debut novel is a winner.