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Our Shadows

Our Shadows

by Gail Jones

A sweeping intergenerational novel from 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award winner Gail Jones.

Format
Paperback
Category
Fiction
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Publish Date
September 2020

Our Shadows is a story about 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.Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. Raised by their grandparents, they now live in Sydney. 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.

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