Lily Campbell's Secret

Author: Jennifer Bryce

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ISBN : 9780994256645
Publisher : Lightning Source Australia
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Weight (g) : 386.0
Publication date : May 2019
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Author : Jennifer Bryce
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It's1913, 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.