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An Angel in Australia is a 2002 novel by Thomas Keneally. [1] Abstract. Set in Australia during World War II, it follows the life of a young Catholic priest, Father Frank Darragh, in 1940s Sydney . Publication history. An Angel in Australia, 2002, Australia, Doubleday Australia ISBN 978-1-864-71001-4 [2]
- Thomas Keneally
- 2002
When one of Father Darragh's "fallen" parishioners, the young working class wife of an Australian POW, is found brutally murdered, she takes on the character of a victim of war in the mind of an impressionable young priest
Jan 4, 2011 · Shortlisted for the 2003 Miles Franklin Award, and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, An Angel in Australia is the 29th novel of the prolific Australian author Thomas (Tom) Keneally. It's a very interesting book, and one worth seeking out.
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- Hardcover
Oct 1, 2003 · Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in wartime Australia. Sydney, 1942 – the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines.
Surely Australia is doomed to fall to the Japanese. In the confessional, Father Frank Darragh hears how his community is changing -- how the very real fear of invasion is leading people to...
A very interesting book in relation to the nursing profession in the First World War. Tom Keneally always gives you plenty of Australian History.
- Hardcover
- Kenneally Tom
Jan 4, 2011 · Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a haunting and evocative tale of murder and loss of innocence in wartime Australia. Sydney, 1942 – the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines.
