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Catherine McKinnon

Award-winning playwright and novelist, Catherine McKinnon studied theatre performance and cinema at Flinders University, and worked for the Red Shed Theatre and later the State Theatre Company as a theatre director and writer. Her play Tilt was selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival, and As I Lay Dreaming won the 2010 Mitch Matthews Award. Her short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Transnational Literature, Text Journal, RealTime, Narrative and Griffith Review. Most recently, McKinnon, along with four other writers, won the Griffith Review Novella 111 Award, 2015, and her novella 'Will Martin' was published by Griffith Review in October of that year. She currently lectures in Performance and Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong.

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Title:

To Sing of War

Written by:

Catherine McKinnon 

Read by:

Annabelle Tudor 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

13 

Duration:

15 hours 59 minutes 

Published:

July 28 2024 

Available Date:

July 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781460737149 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; War Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/HarperCollins audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 39.95

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Australian author

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award–shortlisted Storyland comes a rich, layered and thrilling story of love, war and friendship, perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr, Fiona McFarlane and Barbara Kingsolver.

December 1944. In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family. Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them; shame shapes them; hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake. A beautiful, rich and intricately woven novel that asks how one person can make a difference in a world that is wondrous, thrilling and endangered. It is a blazingly powerful and deeply moving account of friendship, love and war.

'Breathtaking ... simply stunning.' (on Storyland)
The Herald Sun

'A worthy contender for the Great Australian Novel – encompassing, ambitious.' (on Storyland)
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