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Blue Hour

Blue Hour

Author(s): Sarah Schmidt

Location(s): Victoria, Australia

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

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As the rest of the world lies sleeping, Eleanor straps her infant daughter, Amy, into the back of her car. This is the moment she knew must come, when they will walk out on her husband Leon and a marriage in ruins since his return from Vietnam. Together, she and Amy will journey to blue mountain, a place of enchantment and refuge that lit up Eleanor’s childhood.

As the car eats up the miles, so Eleanor’s mind dives back into her fractured relationship with her mother, Kitty. Kitty who asked for so much from life, from love, from family. Kitty who had battled so hard to prise her husband George out of the grip of war. Kitty, whose disapproving voice rings so loud in Eleanor’s head.

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Author: Tina Hartas

Blue Hour by Sarah Schmidt is a novel that centres on two women who are torn by tragedy. It’s set it small-town Australia and follows the fortunes of Kitty Turner and her daughter Eleanor...

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