The coast /
Limprecht, Eleanor,
The coast / Eleanor Limprecht. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022. - 319 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital Lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is told that she's visiting her mother, who disappeared one day when Alice was two. Once there, Alice learns her mother is suffering from leprosy and that Alice has the same disease. As she grows up, the secluded refuge of the lazaret becomes Alice's entire world, her mother and the other patients and medical staff her only human contact. The patients have access to a private sandstone-edged beach, their own rowboat, a piano and a library of books, but Alice is tired of the smallness of her life and is thrilled by the thought of the outside world. It is only when Guy, a Yuwaalaraay man who fought and was injured in World War I, arrives at The Coast, that Alice begins to experience what she has yearned for, as they become friends and then something deeper." -- Back cover.
9781760879402
jb2022020184
Domestic fiction.
Australian fiction.
Leprosy--Patients--Australia--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Leprosy--Patients--Fiction.
Leprosy--Hospitals--Australia--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Leprosy.
Leprosy--Hospitals.
Man-woman relationships.
Mothers and daughters.
Communicable diseases--Hospitals.
Leprosy--Hospitals--Fiction.
Leprosy--Fiction.
Communicable diseases--Hospitals--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
New South Wales--Little Bay.
Little Bay (N.S.W.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Domestic fiction.
Australian fiction
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
A823.4
The coast / Eleanor Limprecht. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022. - 319 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital Lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a veritable prison where more patients are admitted than will ever leave. She is told that she's visiting her mother, who disappeared one day when Alice was two. Once there, Alice learns her mother is suffering from leprosy and that Alice has the same disease. As she grows up, the secluded refuge of the lazaret becomes Alice's entire world, her mother and the other patients and medical staff her only human contact. The patients have access to a private sandstone-edged beach, their own rowboat, a piano and a library of books, but Alice is tired of the smallness of her life and is thrilled by the thought of the outside world. It is only when Guy, a Yuwaalaraay man who fought and was injured in World War I, arrives at The Coast, that Alice begins to experience what she has yearned for, as they become friends and then something deeper." -- Back cover.
9781760879402
jb2022020184
Domestic fiction.
Australian fiction.
Leprosy--Patients--Australia--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Leprosy--Patients--Fiction.
Leprosy--Hospitals--Australia--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Leprosy.
Leprosy--Hospitals.
Man-woman relationships.
Mothers and daughters.
Communicable diseases--Hospitals.
Leprosy--Hospitals--Fiction.
Leprosy--Fiction.
Communicable diseases--Hospitals--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
New South Wales--Little Bay.
Little Bay (N.S.W.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Domestic fiction.
Australian fiction
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
A823.4
