London Joan - The Golden Age - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 A moving story about transition between illness and recovery childhood and maturity life and death. Thirteen - year - old Frank Gold's family escaped from Hungary and the perils of WW 2 to the safety of Australia but not long after their arrival Frank is diagnosed with polio. Sent to a sprawling children's hospital called The Golden Age he nds Elsa the most beautiful girl he has ever seen and a vocation for poetry. Frank and Elsa fall in love fuelling one another's rehabilitation and facing the perils of polio and adolescence hand in hand. Meanwhile Frank and Elsa's parents must cope with their changing realities. Margaret who has sacri ced everything to be a perfect mother must reconcile her hopes and dreams with her daughter's illness. Frank's parents are isolated newcomers in a country they don t love. Ida a renowned pianist in Hungary refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home while her husband Meyer slowly begins to free himself from the past and nd his place in the Perth of the early 1950s.
Title: The Golden Age
Author(s): London Joan
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609453329
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 8/16/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction