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The Bride of Almond Tree
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A love story about loyalty, belief and idealism, set against the epic sweep of twentieth-century history.
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A love story about loyalty, belief and idealism, set against the epic sweep of twentieth-century history.
World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunningham returns home to Almond Tree. He served as a stretcher-bearer; he's seen his fair share of horror. Now he intends to build beautiful houses and to marry, having fallen in love with his neighbour's daughter Beth Hardy.
Beth has other plans. An ardent socialist, she is convinced the Party and Stalin's Soviet Union hold the answers to all the world's evils. She doesn't believe in marriage, and in any case her devotion is to the cause. Beth's ideals will exact a ruinously high price. But Wes will not stop loving her. This is the story of their journey through the catastrophic mid-twentieth century—from summer in Almond Tree to Moscow's bitter winter and back again—to find a way of being together.
The Bride of Almond Tree by Robert Hillman captures the complexity and sacrifice of love in trying times.
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ISBN: 9781922330666
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2021
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 456g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Robert Hillman has written a number of books including his 2004 memoir The Boy in the Green Suit, which won the National Biography Award, and bestselling novel The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted. He lives in Melbourne.
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