Maralinga, My Love

Author(s): Dorothy Johnston

Location(s): Canberra, Maralinga

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s - 1960s

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A novel about the British atomic bomb tests at Maralinga, South Australia, and their effect on the Australian Army recruits who set up the sites.

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The story of a dark period in Australia’s recent past

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“Maralinga, My Love” explores the distinctively Australian brand of mateship of the post-war era, when men bonded through their shared distrust of authority as much any other affiliation. Dorothy Johnston’s spare prose evokes the dust, heat, sweat and monotony...

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