The railwayman's wife
By: Ashley Hay
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781743318355; 9781743432815
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Grief; Fiction; Guilt; Nineteen forties
Description: In a small town on the land's edge, in the strange space at a war's end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story. On the south coast of New South Wales, in 1948, people chase their dreams through the books in the railway's library. Anikka Lachlan searches for solace after her life is destroyed by a single random act. Roy McKinnon, who found poetry in the mess of war, has lost his words and his hope. Frank Draper is trapped by the guilt of those his treatment and care failed on their first day of freedom. All three struggle with the same question: how now to be alive.
Notes: Originally published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2013.