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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 One Sunday
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'Early one Sunday, the town of Molliston wakes to the news that a young bride is dead. The year is 1929. The Great War with Germany has been fought and won, but at an immense cost to the small community.

'Death is too familiar here. So many sons were lost. So many daughters would never be wives; so many grandchildren would never be born.

'Racial hatred is like a bushfire in the belly of some. And the dead girl is found only yards from the property of old Joe Reichenberg, a German. Tom Thompson, the local cop, lost his two sons in Gallipoli. He believes he has come to terms with his bereavement - until that Sunday.

Slowly, the true face of Molliston is exposed. By midnight, a full moon is offering its light - and a glimmer of hope.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to Yvonne Fitzmaurice, who offered me an idea.
    To Dan, gold mine of oral history and long-winded yarns, and to Kay, Donna, Shani and Michelle, thank you.
  • Epigraph: Moths in the moonlight, angel wings,
    Wraith-like shapes, they flit and fade
    Trapped by the moon waif's mystic glow,
    Prey to a night bird's swooping raid. (Anne Perkins)

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Take Three Veronica Sen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 2 April 2006; (p. 14)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 December 2005 - 1 January 2006 2005; (p. 13)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel ; The Line : A Man's Experience : A Son's Quest to Understand Arch Flanagan , Martin Flanagan , 2005 selected work autobiography ; The Earth is Hollow Dimitris Tzoumacas , 1988 selected work prose
Her Own Woman Carol George , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Women's Weekly , November 2005; (p. 325)
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 November 2005; (p. 30)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel ; The Well of Tears Cecilia Dart-Thornton , 2005 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 November 2005; (p. 30)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel ; The Well of Tears Cecilia Dart-Thornton , 2005 single work novel
Other Voices Tony Maniaty , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 December 2005 - 1 January 2006 2005; (p. 13)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel ; The Line : A Man's Experience : A Son's Quest to Understand Arch Flanagan , Martin Flanagan , 2005 selected work autobiography ; The Earth is Hollow Dimitris Tzoumacas , 1988 selected work prose
Take Three Veronica Sen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 2 April 2006; (p. 14)

— Review of One Sunday Joy Dettman , 2005 single work novel
Her Own Woman Carol George , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian Women's Weekly , November 2005; (p. 325)
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