A world of other people /
Carroll, Steven.
A world of other people / Steven Carroll. - Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2013. - 278 p. ; 21 cm. - Eliot Quartet ; 2 .
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. The poet T.S. Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem 'Little Gidding', one of the famous Four Quartets.
Joint Winner 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
9780732291204 (pbk.)
Australian fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Love stories.
A823.4
A world of other people / Steven Carroll. - Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2013. - 278 p. ; 21 cm. - Eliot Quartet ; 2 .
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. The poet T.S. Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem 'Little Gidding', one of the famous Four Quartets.
Joint Winner 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
9780732291204 (pbk.)
Australian fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--England--London--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Love stories.
A823.4
