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The Bride of Almond Tree

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Bride of Almond Tree
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Hillman
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Historical romance
ISBN/Barcode 9780571366422
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 1 July 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of his Quaker family farm, working with horses and dreaming of one day building himself a house on his own patch of ground above the river. The Second World War interrupted those dreams: it took Wes to New Guinea as a medic, and then sent him home with healing bullet wounds in his legs. While Wes was away, life in Almond Tree continued; but everyone's been changed by the war. None more so than Beth Hardy - his headstrong, fiercely intelligent and beautiful neighbour. As Wes begins again to construct the peaceful life he's always wanted, Beth sets herself on a very different path, committing herself to the Communist Party and all it stands for. Their dreams and desires may be at odds, but there is something they don't yet know. Wes and Beth need each other, desperately: neither will be able to survive what life has in store without the other.

Author Biography

Robert Hillman has written a number of books including his 2004 memoir The Boy in the Green Suit, which won the Australian National Biography Award, and The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, published by Faber in 2019. He lives in Melbourne.