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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Sunshine
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'A tale of longing, loss and growing love under the bright Australian sun.

'It's 1921 and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost, but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redoubled bigotries.

'In the tiny hamlet of Sunshine, on the far-flung desert's edge, three very different ex-servicemen - Jack Bell, an Aboriginal horseman; Snow McGlynn, a laconic, curmudgeonly farmer; and Art Lovelee, an eccentric engineer - find themselves sharing a finger of farmland along the Darling River, and not much else. That is, until Art's wife Grace, a battle-hardened nurse, gets to work on them all with her no-nonsense wisdom.

'Told with Kim Kelly's inimitable wit and warmth, Sunshine is a very Australian tale of home, hope and healing, of the power of growing life and love, and discovering that we are each other's greatest gifts.'   (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Millthorpe, Blayney area, Blayney - Cowra - Grenfell area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,: Jazz Monkey Publications , 2019 .
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      Extent: 222p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 5 March 2019

      ISBN: 9781925786378
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books , 2021 .
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      Extent: 222p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 12th October 2021
      ISBN: 9781922598042, 9781922598271 (ebk)

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Works about this Work

Kim Kelly : Sunshine Jessica Stewart , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2019;

'Kim Kelly’s Sunshine, set in the aftermath of the First World War, offers hope amid loss and despair.'

Kim Kelly : Sunshine Jessica Stewart , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2019;

'Kim Kelly’s Sunshine, set in the aftermath of the First World War, offers hope amid loss and despair.'

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