TY - BOOK AU - London,Joan TI - The Golden Age SN - 9781741666441 U1 - A823.3 23 PY - 2014/// CY - North Sydney, N.S.W. PB - Random House Australia KW - Australian fiction KW - Poliomyelitis KW - Patients KW - Fiction KW - Hospitals, Convalescent KW - Western Australia KW - Perth KW - Australian KW - lcgft KW - Australian stories KW - Adult fiction KW - Print N2 - This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life. From one of Australia's most loved novelists. He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home. Perth, 1954 ER -