| Author: | Trevor Edmonds | ISBN: | 9780994535931 |
| Publisher: | Trevor Edmonds | Publication: | February 18, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Trevor Edmonds |
| ISBN: | 9780994535931 |
| Publisher: | Trevor Edmonds |
| Publication: | February 18, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Allan and Dorothy Pryor are a pair of small-town, country-bred teens, both natural loners, and each with impossible aspirations. They meet, get pregnant, marry and, giving up on their separate dreams they move to the city, where they buckle down to the slog of raising kids, but soon drift apart, in their own ways both using World War II as an escape.
After the war, as much more mature people, and now with three pre-war daughters and a mid-war son, they get back together and take up a block in a new suburb at the margins and set about building a house in the face of crippling shortages.
Tackling this new age with them is an assortment of inter-acting families and characters – a blunt old farmer and his wife, who lost their only son at Buna; a war-broken American single father raising a headstrong girl and her crippled twin brother in a shed; a sixty-year-old man helping his deserted daughter-in-law raise ten kids in a railway carriage; Dorothy’s estranged half-brother; and a cynical young ex-gunner who falls for one of Allan and Dorothy’s too-young daughters.
Together this mis-matched collection of battlers struggle to re-build their damaged lives, their relationships, and their families, while turning a bare tract of farm paddocks into a neighbourhood.
Allan and Dorothy Pryor are a pair of small-town, country-bred teens, both natural loners, and each with impossible aspirations. They meet, get pregnant, marry and, giving up on their separate dreams they move to the city, where they buckle down to the slog of raising kids, but soon drift apart, in their own ways both using World War II as an escape.
After the war, as much more mature people, and now with three pre-war daughters and a mid-war son, they get back together and take up a block in a new suburb at the margins and set about building a house in the face of crippling shortages.
Tackling this new age with them is an assortment of inter-acting families and characters – a blunt old farmer and his wife, who lost their only son at Buna; a war-broken American single father raising a headstrong girl and her crippled twin brother in a shed; a sixty-year-old man helping his deserted daughter-in-law raise ten kids in a railway carriage; Dorothy’s estranged half-brother; and a cynical young ex-gunner who falls for one of Allan and Dorothy’s too-young daughters.
Together this mis-matched collection of battlers struggle to re-build their damaged lives, their relationships, and their families, while turning a bare tract of farm paddocks into a neighbourhood.
