A Stolen Season

Each of three people is handed a stretch of time they never expected to live. Adam, a soldier sent home from Iraq with wounds so extensive that a mechanical exoskeleton is all that keeps him moving, returns to a marriage already near its end. Marianna, who teaches dance, has to leave Australia once her husband's lies catch up with powerful people; escaping sorrow and deceit, she is drawn into a strange encounter with a vanished ancient culture. John Philip, raised in privilege, comes into an unexpected legacy from a long-dead forebear when he is already old, and it changes his place among his relatives. Running side by side, their stories ask what remains of a person once body, love or bloodline gives way, and how some people survive it.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

352 pages in the original

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2018

Author's age

83 when first published

ISBN

9781760555443 (Picador Australia, Australia)