Two orphaned sisters, Caroline and Grace, leave Australia for post-war England, navigating love and fate in a literary masterpiece.
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Two orphaned sisters, Caroline and Grace, leave Australia for post-war England, navigating love and fate in a literary masterpiece.
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Hazzard wrote several novels, two of which were National Book Award finalists: The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981). She is also the author of two collections of short stories and several works of nonfiction, including the memoir Greene on Capri. Hazzard's final novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Lauren Groff (introduction) is the award-winning author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, a
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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Moderate focus on romantic and illicit affairs; some implied sexual content.
Violence & gore
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Brief mention of a dead body; minimal graphic detail.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Minor anti-authoritarian and anti-imperial themes present.
Self-harm / suicide
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Mention of a character’s future suicide; not depicted on-page.
Abuse & suffering
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Background themes of emotional suffering and societal conformity.
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