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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Shining like the Sun
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'Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk's Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to retire - to forget his nephew Connor, at war with the world, his brother Brian, visiting from America, his niece Orla, sick with blood cancer. Although he plans, and tries, he can't leave. Something is holding him back.

'As the young people flee, the old people die, the drugs arrive in Selwyn, Wilf has to decide what's important. Shining Like the Sun is about the value of promises, of words and actions that might save a failing community. In the process, Wilf learns there's no such thing as retirement.' (Publication summary)

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    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2024 .
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      • Publication date 15 April 2024

      ISBN: 9781923042278

Works about this Work

Book Review : Shining Like the Sun Ben Adams , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: InReview , April 2024;

— Review of Shining like the Sun Stephen Orr , 2024 single work novel

'Adelaide writer Stephen Orr’s latest novel charts the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, in a story about the meaning of responsibility.' 

Book Review : Shining Like the Sun Ben Adams , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: InReview , April 2024;

— Review of Shining like the Sun Stephen Orr , 2024 single work novel

'Adelaide writer Stephen Orr’s latest novel charts the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, in a story about the meaning of responsibility.' 

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