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We that are left, Lisa Bigelow

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Melbourne, 1940. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry's ship is missing. Meanwhile, Grace Fowler is battling prejudice to become a reporter on the afternoon daily newspaper, The Tribune, while waiting for word on whether her journalist boyfriend Phil Taylor, captured during the fall of Singapore, is still alive. Surrounded by their friends and families, Mae and Grace struggle to keep hope alive in the face of hardship and despondency. Then Mae's neighbour and Grace's boss Sam Barton tells Mae about a rumour that the Japanese have towed the damaged ship to Singapore and taken the crew prisoner. Mae's life is changed forever as she focuses her efforts on willing her husband home. Set in inner Melbourne and rural Victoria, We That Are Left is a moving and haunting novel about love and war, the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair, and how it isn't just the soldiers whose lives are lost when tragedy strikes in times of war
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eng
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396 pages
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9781760297008
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We that are left
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We that are left
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Lisa Bigelow
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Language
eng
Summary
Melbourne, 1940. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry's ship is missing. Meanwhile, Grace Fowler is battling prejudice to become a reporter on the afternoon daily newspaper, The Tribune, while waiting for word on whether her journalist boyfriend Phil Taylor, captured during the fall of Singapore, is still alive. Surrounded by their friends and families, Mae and Grace struggle to keep hope alive in the face of hardship and despondency. Then Mae's neighbour and Grace's boss Sam Barton tells Mae about a rumour that the Japanese have towed the damaged ship to Singapore and taken the crew prisoner. Mae's life is changed forever as she focuses her efforts on willing her husband home. Set in inner Melbourne and rural Victoria, We That Are Left is a moving and haunting novel about love and war, the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy, hope and despair, and how it isn't just the soldiers whose lives are lost when tragedy strikes in times of war
Summary
Melbourne, 1941. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry's ship is missing.
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Lisa Bigelow's life revolves around story-telling. An avid reader from age five, her career as a journalist and communicator has been all building and delivering compelling stories about water resources, climate change and any issue that interests her audiences. She recently completed a Masters Degree in Communication and aims to use her writing to illuminate ongoing issues and make them accessible to a wide readership. We That Are Left is her first novel.
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10652329
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ANL
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Bigelow, Lisa
Dewey number
823.4
Index
index present
Literary form
fiction
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  • Sydney (Cruiser : 1934-1941)
  • Sydney (Cruiser : 1934-1941)
  • Married people
  • Mothers
  • Interpersonal relations
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Journalists
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
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adult
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We that are left, Lisa Bigelow
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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txt
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rdacontent
Control code
000060097896
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
396 pages
Isbn
9781760297008
Media category
unmediated
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rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)990803717
Label
We that are left, Lisa Bigelow
Publication
Copyright
Note
Record machine-generated from publisher information
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000060097896
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
396 pages
Isbn
9781760297008
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)990803717

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