1940s childhood
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australia
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romantic fiction
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sydney
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war storm
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099578345
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 15mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world.
Patrick White died before his novel could be completed, leaving behind a masterpiece in the making.
Patrick White was born in England in 1912. His Australian parents took him home when he was six months old but educated him in England, at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where his first novel, Happy Valley, was published to some acclaim in 1939. After serving in the RAF during the Second World War he returned to Australia with his partner, Manoly Lascaris. The novels, short stories and plays that followed The Tree of Man in 1956 made White a considerable figure in world literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. The Hanging Garden was begun and put aside in 1981 when White was lured away to write once again for the theatre. The unfinished novel was found among his papers after his death in September 1990.
