TY  - SOUND
AU  - White,Patrick
AU  - Bower,Humphrey
ED  - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TI  - The hanging garden
SN  - 9781489376626
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Tullamarine, Victoria
PB  - Bolinda Audio
KW  - Refugee children
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Children
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Unfinished books
KW  - Specimens
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Read by Humphrey Bower
N2  - Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the Blitz. The girl is the daughter of a Sydney woman and a Communist executed in a Greek prison. In wartime Australia, these two children form an extraordinary bond as they negotiate the dangers of life as strangers abandoned on the far side of the world. With the tenderness and rigour of an old, wise novelist, Patrick White explores the world of these children, the city of his childhood and the experience of war. The Hanging Garden ends as the news reaches Sydney of victory in Europe, and the children face their inevitable separation. White put the novel aside at this point and how he planned to finish the work remains a mystery. But at his death he left behind a masterpiece in the making
ER  -