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Our Shadows

✍ Scribed by Gail Jones

Book ID
100586680
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
189 KB
Category
Fiction
City
Australia, Kalgoorlie (W.A.), New South Wales--Sydney, Sydney (N.S.W.), Western Australia--Kalgoorli
ISBN
1925923711

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✦ Synopsis

Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel.

Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. Raised by their grandparents, they now live in Sydney. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents.

Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past.

Gail Jones is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. _The Death of...

✦ Subjects

Western Australia -- Kalgoorlie

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