num_pages: 384
description: Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind hed imagined as a child draped with white sheets with the ability to walk through walls but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart in your memories the kind that came to you in dreams that you could see when you closed your eyes and sometimes even when your eyes were opened.In 1970s Melbourne 22-year-old Italian migrant Antonello is newly married and working as a rigger on the West Gate Bridge a gleaming monument to a modern city. When the bridge collapses one October morning killing 35 of his workmates his world crashes down on him.In 2009 Jo and her best friend Ashleigh are on the verge of finishing high school and flush with the possibilities for their future. But one terrible mistake sets Jos life on a radically different course.Drawing on true events of Australias worst industrial accident  a tragedy that still scars the city  The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class guilt and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even the most harrowing of situations can give way to forgiveness and redemption. Ultimately it is a testament to survival and the resilience of the human spirit.
language: English
title: The Bridge
publisher: Scribe Publications