Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Nine Days

Author: Toni Jordan
Publisher: Melbourne, Vic. The Text Publishing Company, 2012.
(Ebook online resource)


This story was birthed out of an archival image of a woman being hoisted up to a train window to kiss a departing soldier and is grounded in 1939 pre-war Melbourne but spans more than 60 years. An unusual feature of the story is that each chapter is written in the first person from nine different members of an extended family group skipping back & forth across this expanse of time. The story examines the innocent choices that shape each person and the way they are expressed in those around us.

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