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A Woman's Work by Victoria Purman
Category: Historical Fiction
The astonishingly rich prize of the 1956 Australian Women's Weekly cookery competition offers two women the possibility of a new kind of future, in this compassionate look at the extraordinary lives of ordinary women - our mothers and grandmothers - in a beautifully realised post-war Australia. It's ...Show more
Last of the Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman
Category: Fiction
For readers of The Woolgrower's Companion and The Three Miss Allens... Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past? A post-Second World War story of strong female ties and family, secrets and lies, set in the multicultural Australia of the fifties. ...Show more
Nobody But Him by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category | Series: MIRA S.
She didn't expect to run into her first love...or to fall back in love with him. At the age of eighteen, Julia Jones left her hometown -- the small beachside town of Middle Point -- with a head full of grand plans. Plans for an exciting life in a town that didn't involve a main street with only one pub ...Show more
Someone Like You by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category | Series: The\Boys of Summer Ser.
What on earth has happened to Dan McSwaine? When Lizzie Blake knocks on the door of Dan McSwaine's beach house at Middle Point, she barely recognises the man who answers. Whatever happened to the guy who swaggered into her home town with a grin and left with her heart in his back pocket? Lizzie wonders ...Show more
The Land Girls by Victoria Purman
Category: Fiction
A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne,1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Atkins, howev ...Show more
The Land Girls by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category
A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne,1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Atkins, however, ...Show more
The Last Of The Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman
Category: Fiction
For readers of The Woolgrower's Companion and The Three Miss Allens... Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past? A post-Second World War story of strong female ties and family, secrets and lies, set in the multicultural Australia of the fifties. ...Show more
The Nurses' War by Victoria Purman
Category: Modern Fiction
There is more than one way to fight a war...An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on the true history and real experiences of Australian nurses in World War 1. In 1915, as World War 1 rages in Europe and the numbers of dead and injured continue to grow, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barke ...Show more
The Nurses' War by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category
In 1915, as World War I rages in Europe and the numbers of dead and injured continue to grow, Australian nurse, Sister Cora Barker, leaves her home in Australia for England, determined to use her skills for King and Country. When she arrives at Harefield House she helps transform it into a hospital that ...Show more
The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category
From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who wrote the radio plays that held a nation captive. For readers of Lessons in Chemistry. Martha Berry is f ...Show more
The Women's Pages (TPB) by Victoria Purman
Category: No Category
From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. Sydney 1945 The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian women. ...Show more
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