Blue hour / Sarah Schmidt
- Bib ID:
- 8665605
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Schmidt, Sarah, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2022
- ©2022
- 308 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780733636912 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"1936: At nineteen, Kitty was ready to leave behind the stifling control of her parents. Then she met soldier George Turner - and she heard her mother's voice in her ear, warning of danger, of being that girl. Kitty told herself if she ever had her own daughter she'd never control her. 1973: Growing up, Eleanor's home was strained by sorrow and the echoes of war that silenced her parents. And always her mother, Kitty's, bitterness, twisting and poisoning everything she touched. She thought she knew what made her parents this way ... but Eleanor would never know all her mother's secrets. The demands of marriage and motherhood lay claim to Eleanor's days. Nature, embracing curiosity and not being like her mother are Eleanor's solace. But they are not enough when Eleanor's husband, Leon, returns from the Vietnam War and his darkness overwhelms. Afraid, unsure and alone, Eleanor will be driven to erase her mother's voice in her head. But can she bear the burden of her own secrets? Vivid, deeply affecting and confronting, Blue Hour explores the beauty and violence in the world. Powerfully magnifying the fractures between a mother and a daughter, it reveals the brutal cost when we allow grief and trauma to reach down generations."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- "From the bestselling author of See What I Have Done" --Page [1] of cover.
- Subject:
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- Girls -- Fiction
- Human behavior -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- War -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Psychic trauma -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Australian
- Genre/Form:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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