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The Golden Age

The Golden Age

Author
Joan London
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • Publication date: 2015
  • Publisher: Random House Australia
  • Weight: 0.19 kg ISBN: 9780857989000 Note that the actual book cover may differ from the picture

It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs- love and desire, music, death, and poetry. It is a place where children must learn they're alone, even within their families. Subtle, moving and remarkably lovely, The Golden Age evokes a time past and a yearning for deep connection, from one of Australia's finest and most-loved novelists.