- ISBN: 9781460711736
- ISBN 10: 1460711734
- Imprint: 4th Estate
- On Sale: May 1, 2024
- Pages: 464 pages
To Sing of War
From the author of the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War.
DECEMBER 1944: In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies’ hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that they believe will stop all war. Meanwhile, Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them; shame shapes them; hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake.
A beautiful, rich and intricately woven novel, To Sing of War asks how one person can make a difference in a world that is wondrous, thrilling and endangered. It insists on our interconnectedness, hums with the energy of the world and is a blazingly powerful and deeply moving account of friendship, love and war.
‘Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction’
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Available at the following sites or order from your favourite independent bookstore:
- HarperCollins
- The Book Warehouse (Coffs Harbour)
- Gleebooks (Glebe, Sydney)
- The Bookshop Bowral (in store)
- Kinokuniya (Sydney)
- Dymocks
- Matilda Bookstore (Adelaide)
- Imprints Booksellers (Adelaide)
- Readings Carlton
- Avid Reader Brisbane
- Amazon
- Better Read Than Dead (Newtown, Sydney)
- Collins Booksellers Thirroul
- The Book Warehouse (Coffs Harbour)
- Constant Reader
- Dillons Bookshop (Adelaide)
- To Sing of War (Audio)
‘Epic in scope, intimate in effect’
Steven Conte, author of The Tolstoy Estate