- Title:
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Bereft (MP3)
- Written by:
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Chris Womersley
- Read by:
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Dan Wyllie
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 44 minutes
- MP3 size:
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338 MB
- Published:
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February 01 2012
- Available Date:
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July 28 2011
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743103456
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; General Fiction; War Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2011
Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2011
Shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award / Fiction 2011
"A rich, gripping tale of love, loss, conflict and salvation . . . I had that very rare experience of wanting to read it again, almost immediately."
Australian Bookseller & Publisher
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world.
In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Aware that his father and uncle would surely hang him, Quinn hides in the hills surrounding Flint. There, he meets the orphan Sadie Fox – a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about the crime than she should.
A searing gothic novel of love, longing and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind.