TY  - BOOK
AU  - Limprecht,Eleanor
TI  - The coast
SN  - 9781760879402
U1  - A823.4 22/eng/20220530
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Leprosy
KW  - Patients
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
KW  - fast
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Little Bay
KW  - Little Bay (N.S.W.)
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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
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