Joan London

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• The Golden Age

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2015 · Shortlist

  The Golden Age

  The Golden Age

  Joan London · 66 when first published

  Novel · Migration, Love, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1954 Frank Gold, a thirteen-year-old refugee from Hungary who has caught polio in Australia, relearns how to walk at a children's convalescent home in Perth, where he falls for a fellow patient, Elsa.

• Gilgamesh

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2002 · Shortlist

  Gilgamesh

  Gilgamesh

  Joan London · 53 when first published

  Novel · 256 pages · Historical, War, Family

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1937 two young men returning from a dig in Iraq call at a small farm in Australia's far south-west, where Edith, seventeen, lives with her sister and mother, and fill her head with stories, among them the epic of Gilgamesh.