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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Lily Campbell's Secret
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'It's 1913, and Lily’s comfortable middle-class Melbourne life is completely upended when she falls in love. As she sits in the hall of her private school, portraits of past headmistresses frowning at her, she realises the ‘glaring, unalterable fact’ that she is pregnant, the father a young stablehand called Bert. Her parents disown her: the first of many wrenching challenges she must face. She marries Bert and they have a few happy months together in rural Woodend, where their daughter is born. When the war starts, Bert volunteers and Lily is thrown very much on her own resources. After Bert returns home, Lily has to face the most momentous decision of her life.

'Lily’s role as mother, musician, wife and lover, leads her to confront issues of patriarchy, nationalism, love… and the value of a human life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Rightword Enterprises , 2019 .
      image of person or book cover 6317989900773109178.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 302p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 May 2019.
      ISBN: 9780994256645, 0994256647

Works about this Work

Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019 Bruce Gillespie , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)

— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth Gerald Murnane , 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music Archie Roach , 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret Jennifer Bryce , 2019 single work novel
Good Things Arrive in the Mail Bruce Gillespie , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 9-19)

— Review of Lily Campbell's Secret Jennifer Bryce , 2019 single work novel ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story Iola Mathews , 2019 single work autobiography ; The Dragon's Child Janeen Webb , 2018 single work novella
Good Things Arrive in the Mail Bruce Gillespie , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 9-19)

— Review of Lily Campbell's Secret Jennifer Bryce , 2019 single work novel ; Winning for Women : A Personal Story Iola Mathews , 2019 single work autobiography ; The Dragon's Child Janeen Webb , 2018 single work novella
Favourite Novels Read for the First Time in 2019 Bruce Gillespie , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 42=44)

— Review of Love Is Strong as Death 2019 anthology poetry ; A Season on Earth Gerald Murnane , 2019 single work novel ; Tell Me Why : The Story of My Life and My Music Archie Roach , 2019 single work autobiography ; The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019 anthology poetry ; Lily Campbell's Secret Jennifer Bryce , 2019 single work novel
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Woodend, Gisborne - Woodend area, Sunbury - Kyneton area, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1910s
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