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Sunshine
Sunshine | Kim Kelly
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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. Praise for Kim Kelly 'colourful, evocative and energetic' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Kelly is a masterful creator of character and voice' - Julian Leatherdale 'Why can't more people write like this?' - The Age
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JenReadsAlot
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The sun is finally shining and Frankie found a spot on my kitchen table!! #catsoflitsy

Liz_M Hey gorgeous Frankie 😻 2mo
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 2mo
KadaGul @JenReadsAlot The things our Cats 🐈 get away with. One of my cat likes to take naps😴 in the middle of Formal Dinning Table. Tiny sun 🌞 and my cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ would flop their body right there. It doesn't matter what's the location 🤣🤣. It's like they are obedient to Sun 🌞 God.🤣🤣🤣 2mo
merelybookish Beauty! 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this 🌞 3y
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VanessaCW
Sunshine | Kim Kelly
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An engaging and well written story. There‘s a good sense of time and place and the descriptions are very vivid. The characters are well drawn and interesting. Some of the events which happen to them are quite heartbreaking. It‘s a short novel and a lot is crammed into it - I wish it had been a little longer. I was quite sad when it had finished, a sign of a good book! Read via the Pigeonhole app.