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The Widow And Her Hero

Author: Tom Keneally  

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" To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. "

In 1943, when Grace and Leo married in Australia, they were part of a generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, new evidence comes to light of the ultimate betrayal. Australian author.

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" To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. "

In 1943, when Grace and Leo married in Australia, they were part of a generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, new evidence comes to light of the ultimate betrayal. Australian author.

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To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt.To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt.I knew in general terms I was marrying a hero. The burden lay lightly on Leo, and to be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt... The Japanese had barely been turned away. It was heresy and unlucky to undermine young men at such a supreme hour.When Grace married the genial and handsome Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia in 1943, they were young, in love - and at war. Like many other young men and women, they were ready, willing and able to put the war effort first. They never seriously doubted that they would come through unscathed.But Leo never returned from a commando mission masterminded by his own hero figure, an eccentric and charismatic man who inspired total loyalty from those under his command. The world moved on to new alliances, leaving Grace, like so many widows, to bear the pain of losing the love of her life and wonder what it had all been for.Sixty years on, Grace is still haunted by the tragedy of her doomed hero when the real story of his ill-fated secret mission is at last unearthed. As new fragments of her hero's story emerge, Grace is forced to keep revising her picture of what happened to Leo and his fellow commandoes - until she learns about the final piece in the jigsaw, and the ultimate betrayal.

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Awards

Short-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Australia): Fiction 2008

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About the Author

Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. His non-fiction includes the memoir Searching for Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel. His fiction includes Shame and the Captives, The Daughters of Mars, The Widow and Her Hero, An Angel in Australia and Bettany's Book. His novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award. In 2022, his novel Corporal Hitler's Pistol was awarded the ARA Historical Novel Prize.

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Product Details

Publisher
Random House Australia | Vintage
Published
1st March 2008
Pages
304
ISBN
9781864711028

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