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The Everlasting Sunday

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The Everlasting Sunday
Our Rating: (5/5)
Author: Lukins, Robert
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702260056
RRP: 29.95

Synopsis

‘Robert Lukins’ powerful, assured writing cuts like a knife into a world crackling with secrets and tension.’ – Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek

During the freezing English winter of 1962, seventeen-year-old Radford is sent to Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have been ‘found by trouble’. Drawn immediately to the charismatic West, Radford soon discovers that each one of them has something to hide.

Life at the Manor offers a refuge of sorts, but unexpected arrivals threaten the world the boys have built. Will their friendship be enough when trouble finds them again?

At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.

Robert Lukins lives in Melbourne and has worked as an art researcher and journalist. His writing has been published widely, including in The Big Issue, Rolling Stone, Crikey, Broadsheet and Overland. The Everlasting Sunday is his first novel.

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