A world of other people / Steven Carroll.

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Carroll, Steven

Series: Eliot Quartet. 2 Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2013.Description: 278 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780732291204 (pbk.)

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A823.4 23

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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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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Vol info	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item reserves
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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