Our shadows
By: Gail Jones
Publisher: Text Publishing Company
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781922330284
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction; Orphans; Families; Homecoming; Gold mines and mining; History
Description: "Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel. Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in Sydney and are estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents. Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past."--Publisher.