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Blood red road is a dystopian novel by moira young, published in june 2011 by marion lloyd books in the uk and margaret k. Blood red road dust lands by moira young scholastic. A former actor and opera singer, her debut novel, blood red road, first in the dustlands trilogy, was published in 2011 to international acclaim. In a lawless land, where life is cheap and survival is hard, saba has been brought up in. Blood red road by moira young childrens books the guardian.
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