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From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for the first time now.
This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and loving parents, they welcome into their circle, Stephen and Anna, two orphans, whose lives until now have been very different from those of the Howards. But despite this, these four will spend the rest of their lives moving in and out of each other's shadows.
Today: over a tennis match, the two orphans, Anna and Stephen, are welcomed into the rarified world of the Howard family.
'Harrower evokes the waste and futility of a decadent class with all the bite and poignancy of F Scott Fitzgerald,' Eimear McBride, New Statesman.
Internationally acclaimed Australian author Elizabeth Harrower's novel was written in 1971 and is published for the first time now.
This tale of love, class and freedom, set set among the grand houses and lush gardens of Sydney Harbour just after WWII, follows the lives of Zoe and Russell Howard. Charismatic and confident, the children of affluent and loving parents, they welcome into their circle, Stephen and Anna, two orphans, whose lives until now have been very different from those of the Howards. But despite this, these four will spend the rest of their lives moving in and out of each other's shadows.
Today: over a tennis match, the two orphans, Anna and Stephen, are welcomed into the rarified world of the Howard family.
'Harrower evokes the waste and futility of a decadent class with all the bite and poignancy of F Scott Fitzgerald,' Eimear McBride, New Statesman.