The Wing of Night

In 1915 a troopship carrying Light Horsemen leaves Fremantle for the war. Watching the men go are Elizabeth, who grew up with money she never had to think about, and Bonnie, who has always known the fear of being poor; both have a husband or sweetheart on board. Divided at first by class, the two women left at home learn to make do, to endure, and to bear grief and hope, while at Gallipoli the men discover the solidarity of shared need. The novel moves between the front and home and follows the war's long shadow, in which soldiers come back as strangers in their own land and people become what they never imagined they would be.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, Türkiye, 1910s

First published

2005

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9780670893232 (Viking, Australia)

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