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Title:
An Angel in Australia
Written by:
Tom Keneally 
Read by:
Gary Down 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
10 hours 16 minutes 
Published:
December 28 2018 
Available Date:
December 28 2018 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781489469915 
Genres:
Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Historical Fiction; World War II 
Publisher:
Bolinda audio 
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#1 bestselling author

Shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2003

Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in wartime Australia.

Sydney, 1942 – the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Australia is surely doomed to fall to the Japanese ... Through the eyes of a naive young priest we see into the hearts of a people who fear the end of life as they know it. In the confessional, Father Frank Darragh hears how his community is changing – how the very real fear of invasion by the Japanese is leading people to challenge what the church teaches is right or wrong. Under the threat of death, people do things they would never dream of in peacetime. Especially vulnerable are those women whose husbands have been captured in Singapore or the Western desert. Facing the future alone and unprotected, they are at risk of succumbing to the charms of more subtle invaders, American servicemen. When the beautiful wife of an Australian POW is found brutally murdered, she takes on the character of a victim of war in the mind of the impressionable young priest. His obsession with her lost soul leads Darragh on a dangerous journey of personal discovery, one that puts his own life at risk ...

'The gripping work of an author at the height of his powers.'
The Times

'[Its] great strengths lie in its evocation of Australia at a particularly turbid period of its history, and in its characterisation of ordinary people faced with extraordinary dilemmas.'
The Daily Telegraph

'Meticulous, exact and beautifully written ... Keneally has the ability to evoke an entire character, even an entire philosophy, in one sentence.'
Literary Review