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'Love in the Years of Lunacy is a novel set in Sydney during World War Two. The protagonist is a teenage saxophonist, Pearl, who has just met an African-American GI, James Washington. James is a far more accomplished jazz saxophonist than she and, in the chapter published here, Pearl is preparing to go on her first date with him.' - Mandy Sayer.
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Allen and Unwin
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2011
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2011
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novel
historical fiction
'Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again, especially not Pearl.
'A love story begins to unfold against the blacked-out nights and rumour-filled days of a city in the grip of war. But public events are closing in on Pearl's private world. When James is shipped out to fight in New Guinea, she hatches a breathtaking plan to reunite with him. And then all hell breaks loose.
'Moving, tender and audaciously original, Love in the Years of Lunacy is a love story with a haunting jazz soundtrack and a war story like no other.' (From the publisher's website.)
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- Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
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