The Resource Empire Day
Empire Day
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The item Empire Day represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Empire Day represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- From award-winning author Diane Armstrong comes a dramatic and heartwarming novel which brilliantly evokes postwar Sydney. A heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDStREEt and tHE HARP IN tHE SOUtH Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will never be the same again. the 'reffos' have moved in, and their strange ways are threatening the comfortable world of salt-of-the-earth locals like Pop Wilson, deserted mum Kath and sharp-tongued Maude McNulty. With suspicious and disapproving eyes, the Australians observe their new neighbours - mysterious Mr Emil, fragile young Lilija and all the other Europeans starting their lives afresh. Mistrust and misunderstandings abound on both sides. to Hania, an angry teenager struggling to cope with her hysterical mother, and to Sala, an unhappily married woman trying to blot out her traumatic wartime past, the Australians appear enviably carefree. But behind closed doors, Old as well as New Australians suffer secret heartaches. As the smoke of fires past and present gradually disperses and the lives of the two groups entwine, unexpected relationships form that bring passion and tragedy for some, and forgiveness and resolution for others. EMPIRE DAY is a dramatic and heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDStREEt and tHE HARP IN tHE SOUtH. It confirms Diane Armstrong as one of our most gifted and compelling storytellers
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9780730497745
- Label
- Empire Day
- Title
- Empire Day
- Statement of responsibility
- Diane Armstrong
- Subject
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- trueSocial conflict
- trueRefugees
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
- trueNew neighbors
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueNeighborhoods -- Australia
- trueImmigrants -- Australia
- trueAustralia -- History -- 1945-
- trueSocial change
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueLiterature
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From award-winning author Diane Armstrong comes a dramatic and heartwarming novel which brilliantly evokes postwar Sydney. A heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDStREEt and tHE HARP IN tHE SOUtH Empire Day, 1948. A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages. But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will never be the same again. the 'reffos' have moved in, and their strange ways are threatening the comfortable world of salt-of-the-earth locals like Pop Wilson, deserted mum Kath and sharp-tongued Maude McNulty. With suspicious and disapproving eyes, the Australians observe their new neighbours - mysterious Mr Emil, fragile young Lilija and all the other Europeans starting their lives afresh. Mistrust and misunderstandings abound on both sides. to Hania, an angry teenager struggling to cope with her hysterical mother, and to Sala, an unhappily married woman trying to blot out her traumatic wartime past, the Australians appear enviably carefree. But behind closed doors, Old as well as New Australians suffer secret heartaches. As the smoke of fires past and present gradually disperses and the lives of the two groups entwine, unexpected relationships form that bring passion and tragedy for some, and forgiveness and resolution for others. EMPIRE DAY is a dramatic and heart-warming novel in the tradition of CLOUDStREEt and tHE HARP IN tHE SOUtH. It confirms Diane Armstrong as one of our most gifted and compelling storytellers
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- 10028665
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Armstrong, Diane
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- True
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Empire Day
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:96db3c64-d332-401c-bb13-4d7a6a0b7e85
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9780730497745
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- Empire Day
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:96db3c64-d332-401c-bb13-4d7a6a0b7e85
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780730497745
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueAustralia -- History -- 1945-
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
- trueAustralian fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueImmigrants -- Australia
- trueLiterature
- trueNeighborhoods -- Australia
- trueNew neighbors
- trueRefugees
- trueSocial change
- trueSocial conflict
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