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That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, a happy marriage, a jet-setting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. 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