Love Without Hope

When a bushfire kills the horses she loves, Mrs Shoddy, a capable woman of the land, falls into a depression and lets her home go to ruin, until a district nurse has her locked away in a lunatic asylum. It is 1982, in a New South Wales country town still under the state's Department of Lunacy. Against the brutality of the institution she draws on memories of the husband who went missing, on her horses and on music, and the people in her mind grow as real as those around her.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

Australia, 1982

First published

2007

Author's age

72 when first published

ISBN

9780330422888 (Picador, Australia)

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