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A world of other people / Steven Carroll.

By: Series: Eliot Quartet. 2 Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2013.Description: 278 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780732291204 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
Awards:
  • Joint Winner 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction.
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Awarded General Fiction | Australian General Fiction
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction CAR Eliot Bk.2 Available 053870
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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.

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