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The railwayman's wife

Hay, Ashley (author.).

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When Anikka Lachlan's husband, Mac, is killed in a railway accident, she is offered -- and accepts -- a job at the Railway Institute's library and searches there for some solace in her unexpectedly new life. But in Thirroul, Australia, in 1948, she's not the only person trying to chase dreams through books. There's Roy McKinnon, who found poetry in the mess of war, but who has now lost his words and his hope. There's Frank Draper, trapped by the guilt of those his medical treatment and care failed on their first day of freedom. All three struggle to find their own peace, and their own new story. But along with the firming of this triangle of friendship and a sense of lives inching towards renewal come other extremities -- and misunderstandings. In the end, love and freedom can have unexpected ways of expressing themselves.

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The Railwayman's Wife
The Railwayman's Wife
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The Railwayman's Wife

Ashley Hay is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She has written over twenty-five essays and short stories. In 2016, she won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her work, The forest at the edge of time. It was first published in the Australian Book Review and will also be included in the anthology The Best Australian Science Writing 2016. Her novels include The Railwayman's Wife which won the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People's Choice Award at the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize, The Body in the Clouds, and A Hundred Small Lessons. Her nonfiction books include Museum (with Robyn Stacey), Herbarium (with Robyn Syacey), Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron. She was the editor of Best Australian Science Writing 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)

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