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Kim Kelly

Kim Kelly is the author of eleven novels, including the acclaimed Wild Chicory and the bestselling The Blue Mile. With distinctive warmth and lyrical charm, her stories explore Australia, its history, politics and people. Her work has gained shortlistings in The Hope Prize and Australia’s premier short novel award, Viva la Novella. A long-time book editor and sometime reviewer, Kim is a dedicated narrative addict and lover of true love. In fact, she takes love so seriously she once donated a kidney to her husband to prove it, and also to save his life. Originally from Sydney, today Kim lives in central New South Wales, on Wiradjuri country, with her husband, two cats and some chickens, and occasionally the kids when they come home to graze.

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Title:: The Blue Mile (MP3)
Written by:: Kim Kelly
Read by:: Zoe Ellerton-Ashley; James Harvy
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 14 hours 16 minutes
MP3 size:: 625 MB
Published:: May 01 2014
Available Date:: May 01 2014
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781486214150
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction
Publisher:: ABC Audio

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A sweeping historical romance from the bestselling author of 'This Red Earth'.

The week before Christmas, 1929, Eoghan O'Keenan loses his factory job, and has to flee the slums of Chippendale with his seven-year-old sister Agnes. On the north side of Sydney at Lavender Bay, Olivia Greene is working on her latest millinery creations and dreaming of becoming the next Coco Chanel. A job on the Harbour Bridge for Eoghan, designing couture for the Governor's wife for Olivia, and a chance meeting in the Botanic Gardens sees the beginning of an unconventional romance. From vastly different backgrounds, with absolutely nothing in common - from faith to wealth and class - it seems that the blue mile of harbour between Olivia and Eoghan will be the least of the obstacles ahead. By mid-1932, as the construction of the Bridge is completed, the city is in chaos as the Great Depression begins to bite hard and the unemployed edge ever closer to a violent revolt. And then Eoghan disappears. Set against the spectacular backdrop of Sydney Harbour, The Blue Mile is a tale of the both wild and calculated risks a city took to build a wonder of the world, and of those taken by ordinary people to save a great love, against all of the odds.