num_pages: 403
description: Impulsive, idealistic, and restless, Emily Stanton finds herself with university behind her, on the threshold of life in 1920's Melbourne. When she is introduced to a Franco-Scottish engineer whose Paris home promises the exotic, she chooses against academia and leaves Australia to become a wife. But marriage and the prospect of motherhood soon fail to provide sufficient fulfilment and she embarks on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening that takes her as far as Tunisia, and towards a crossroads in her life. A mesmerising, rich story of dreams and obsessions that explores the psyche of a woman torn between family and career. A thoughtful book of subtlety and grace.
language: English
title: Conditions of Faith
titlecomplete: Conditions of Faith
genres: Contemporary, 21st Century, France, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Australia, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Fiction
ratings_count: 489
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award
publisher: Sceptre