- Title:
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Love in the Years of Lunacy
- Written by:
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Mandy Sayer
- Read by:
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Kate Hood
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours 47 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2011
- Available Date:
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May 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742678580
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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A ‘remarkable love story for all desperate times and places’ THOMAS KENEALLY
Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again, especially not Pearl. A love story begins to unfold against the blacked-out nights and rumour-filled days of a city in the grip of war.
But public events are closing in on Pearl’s private world. When James is shipped out to fight in New Guinea, she hatches a breathtaking plan to reunite with him. And then all hell breaks loose. Moving, tender and audaciously original, Love in the Years of Lunacy is a love story with a haunting jazz soundtrack and a war story like no other.