Learned Behaviours

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The past is calling him home ...

As a prospective barrister, Zaid Saban is on the cusp of achieving everything he has dreamed of. His social and professional world is far removed from his schoolyard days in the suburbs of western Sydney, even more far removed from the traumatic events of his final year of school in which best friend, Hass,was arrested for murder.

Zaid thinks he hasput all this behind him.But when Hasss sister, Amira,finds him and asks him to read her brothers diary, Zaid is pulled back to the very world he had left behind. Is it possible that Hass was innocent As Amira and Zaid seek to solve the mystery of what happened all those years ago, Zaid is forced toconfront the ugliness of the past and what it means for who he is today.

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Zeynab Gamieldien is the inaugural winner of the 2022 Westwords/Ultimo Prize for her debut novel, The Scope of Permissibility. Her work has been shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction and featured in publications such as the Sydney Morning Heralds Daily Life section and the Australian Muslim Times.