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Title:
The Hanging Garden (MP3)
Written by:
Patrick White 
Read by:
Humphrey Bower 
Format:
Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
5 hours 35 minutes 
MP3 size:
243 MB 
Published:
January 28 2017 
Available Date:
January 28 2017 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489376633 
Genres:
Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Historical Fiction 
Publisher:
ABC Audio 
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'It is frustrating and tantalising that The Hanging Garden is left, well, hanging.'
The Sunday Times

Two children negotiate the dangers of life as World War Two evacuees in this unfinished novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick White.

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. With the tenderness and rigour of an old, wise novelist, Patrick White explores the world of these children, the city of his childhood and the experience of war. The Hanging Garden ends as the news reaches Sydney of victory in Europe, and the children face their inevitable separation. White put the novel aside at this point and how he planned to finish the work remains a mystery. But at his death he left behind a masterpiece in the making.

'What is instantly apparent is White's mastery of his art. He does what so many other writers ought to be able to do easily but often can't, which is set a scene economically and vividly.'
The Herald

'[A] coherent and polished read, shrewd and tender about its two protagonists ... Arresting.'
The Spectator