Description
Title: Painting the Light
Author: MANNING NED
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/05/2022
Imprint: BROADCAST BOOKS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
Painting the Light is an expansive historical Australian novel and a touching and realistic love story set before, during and after WW2. It traces the journey of two young Australians whose experience of the war leads them to rejecting their conservative upbringing and embracing the aims of a fair deal for everyone. Nell Hope s dreams of becoming an artist are dashed when Hitler invades Poland. Her grazier father orders her home from Paris, and so she swaps her paint brush for riding boots. Alec Murray s loyalist instincts propel him to leave his farm in western NSW and enlist in the AIF to defend Britain against the impending Nazi threat. They meet in the hyper-charged atmosphere of prewar Sydney and fall in love, but their courtship is cut short when war is declared.
ISBN: 9780648905363