And in the Morning
Author: Robinson, Lenny
ISBN: 9780702268847
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year first published: 04 Aug 2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The moving story of three Australian women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love.Plt;/bPgt;
In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home LilyP#8217;s husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse in the Middle East. Twenty-three years later, as the same city awaits a Japanese invasion, Frankie, a young WAAAF on a nightP#8217;s leave from the service, meets an airman, Ed, at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, a single mother, Fran, prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;And in the MorningPlt;/iPgt; is a novel about war and the ways in which its tragedies, both great and small, transform the intimate lives of the mothers, wives and lovers who must live with its consequences.
ISBN: 9780702268847
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year first published: 04 Aug 2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;The moving story of three Australian women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love.Plt;/bPgt;
In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home LilyP#8217;s husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse in the Middle East. Twenty-three years later, as the same city awaits a Japanese invasion, Frankie, a young WAAAF on a nightP#8217;s leave from the service, meets an airman, Ed, at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, a single mother, Fran, prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;And in the MorningPlt;/iPgt; is a novel about war and the ways in which its tragedies, both great and small, transform the intimate lives of the mothers, wives and lovers who must live with its consequences.
