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'It's 1913, and Lily’s comfortable middle-class Melbourne life is completely upended when she falls in love. As she sits in the hall of her private school, portraits of past headmistresses frowning at her, she realises the ‘glaring, unalterable fact’ that she is pregnant, the father a young stablehand called Bert. Her parents disown her: the first of many wrenching challenges she must face. She marries Bert and they have a few happy months together in rural Woodend, where their daughter is born. When the war starts, Bert volunteers and Lily is thrown very much on her own resources. After Bert returns home, Lily has to face the most momentous decision of her life.
'Lily’s role as mother, musician, wife and lover, leads her to confront issues of patriarchy, nationalism, love… and the value of a human life.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel -
Good Things Arrive in the Mail
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 9-19)
— Review of Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story 2019 single work autobiography ; The Dragon's Child 2018 single work novella
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Good Things Arrive in the Mail
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 9-19)
— Review of Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story 2019 single work autobiography ; The Dragon's Child 2018 single work novella -
Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)
— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret 2019 single work novel
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Woodend, Gisborne - Woodend area, Sunbury - Kyneton area, Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1910s