Catherine McKinnon’s last novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and it’s worth betting that To Sing of War will attract just as much, if not more, critical acclaim. McKinnon skilfully interweaves three separate narratives in a multilayered amalgamation of history and fiction.
Lotte Wyld is a young Australian nurse serving in New Guinea in 1944 where the Australian forces are conducting an operation to drive out the remaining Japanese. Soon after arriving, Lotte runs into Virgil Nicholson, an Australian soldier with whom she shares a fractured romantic history.
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