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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Keeping Faith
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'In Keeping Faith the innocence and certainties of childhood are delicately tested against the realities of adult life. Josh and Gracie grow up in a working class world centred on the values of faith and family. Both cherish their father, a lay preacher, and their mother, but for Josh the complex secrets, doubts and subtleties of the world do not allow for certainty. In adulthood he works as a labour ward attendant, his younger sister Gracie as a nurse on a remote mission station in Papua New Guinea.

'While Josh's conviction falters, the unfailing faith of his sister leads to tragic consequences. As events move between 1975 and 1994, between a family drama in outer suburban Melbourne and a tribal rebellion in Melanesia, faith and doubt become entwined.' (From the publisher's website.)

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    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2010 .
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      Extent: 224p.
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      • Publication date: 1 February 2010.
      ISBN: 9780980571752

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] Keeping Faith by Roger Averill Sue Polites , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , no. 129 2013; (p. 34)
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 March 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; White Lines (Vertical) Marcelle Freiman , 2010 selected work poetry
Take Three Ian McFarlane , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 7 March 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel Stephen Orr , 2008 single work novel ; Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; Once on a Road Mary-Ellen Mullane , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Adam Rivett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 63)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Books Roger Averill , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 - 21 February 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel
Getting off to a Good Start Anson Cameron , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 29)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; Come Inside Glenys Osborne , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Books Roger Averill , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 - 21 February 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Adam Rivett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 63)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel
Take Three Ian McFarlane , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 7 March 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Time's Long Ruin : A Novel Stephen Orr , 2008 single work novel ; Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; Once on a Road Mary-Ellen Mullane , 2010 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 March 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; White Lines (Vertical) Marcelle Freiman , 2010 selected work poetry
[Review Essay] Keeping Faith by Roger Averill Sue Polites , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , no. 129 2013; (p. 34)
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