The Time We Have Taken

One summer morning in 1970 the man who runs the local shop for radios and televisions announces that a Melbourne suburb has turned a hundred, and the place gets ready to celebrate its progress. Rita wakes up hearing her husband snore in a dream, though Vic went north years ago. Their son Michael now lives in town and is finding his way into first love; his friend Mulligan has been asked to depict the suburb's past on a large wall painting; and Rita's sometime friend Mrs Webster tries to understand how her husband died. The story of one family runs alongside that of a whole community, and a country, going through rapid change.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, 1970

First published

2007

Author's age

58 when first published

ISBN

9780732278366 (Fourth Estate, Australia)

9780099537298 (Windmill Books, United Kingdom)

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