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  8.Apart from its association with Australia, what do you think is meant by the title, Down Under?

  About the Author

  SONIA TAITZ is an essayist, a playwright, and the critically acclaimed author of The Watchmaker’s Daughter, In the King’s Arms, and Mothering Heights. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Observer, O: The Oprah Magazine, More, and Psychology Today, where she is a columnist on family trauma. She has been cited on ABC’s Nightline, in a PBS special on love, and in countless quotation anthologies.

  Sonia Taitz earned a J.D. from Yale Law School; she has a served as a law guardian for foster children and an ER advocate for victims of rape and domestic violence. She also holds an M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English literature from Oxford University, where she was awarded the Lord Bullock Prize for her fiction. She lives in New York City.