17/07/2025
In conversation iwth Chloe Adams & Alli Sinclair
What an opprotunity. Chloe & Alli will be talking about their books 'The Occupation' Chloe Adams & 'A Woman's Voice' Alli Sinclair
'The Occupation'
In the autumn of 1949, two women convene in the parlour of an upmarket Melbourne hotel. Tess is married and childless. Mary, u***d and pregnant. Over thirty minutes, Mary agrees to a life-altering pact: to hand over her child.
One year earlier, Mary had arrived in the ruined port of Kure, where thousands of Australians had established an occupation of the Hiroshima prefecture. Among the rubble, she finds a surreal expat world of picnics, parties and uneasy privilege, while the local population struggles to rebuild.
There she meets Sullivan “Sully” Darling, an Australian journalist. What begins as a weekend trip to the mountains turns into a love affair —one that forces Mary to confront her ideals about the war, the Allies’ legacy and herself.
Back in Australia, the echoes of occupation linger, as Mary fights to reclaim her place —and her child —in a society determined to possess her.
'A Woman's Voice'
When violin virtuoso Laura Hartley’s priceless instrument is stolen, her celebrated European career collapses — and with it, her rare gift of seeing music in colour. Fleeingto her grandmother’s home in the Australian outback, Laura discovers anextraordinary legacy woven through sheets of music: a powerful symphony born fromthe revolutionary hearts of suffragettes who refused to be silenced, their voices risingabove the doomed decks of the Titanic.
As she traces each note of this forgotten masterpiece, Laura uncovers a story of women who dared to fight for a world where every voice could be heard. And when scandal rocks the town of Gungderring, she must decide: will she stay in thewings, or step forward and fight?
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