by NRB | 9 May 2017 | Fiction |
Ashley Hay’s new novel gives us warm, affectionate portraits of people and place in a story that shifts between past and present. Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award, Ashley Hay’s previous novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, was a love letter to Thirroul. A...
by NRB | 22 Oct 2013 | Fiction |
This novel of the aftermath of war, grief and library books is written with elegance and feeling. It’s 1948, and although the war has been over for years, its echoes reverberate. In Thirroul, a small town on the coast south of Sydney, Anikka Lachlan counts...
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