![]() Mary-Anne has drawn on her love of the Australian bush, her fascination with her own family history and her deep, abiding respect for the Anzac generation to produce this novel. 1 Biography OConnor grew up in Wahroonga, Sydney, the daughter of Dorn and Australian artist Kevin Best. Work then began on her first major novel, Gallipoli Street. a time of desperate love born in desperate times and acts of friendship against impossible odds. Mary-Anne OConnor is an Australian novelist. "At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother dictates, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance.īut this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to change forever as the O'Shay and Murphy families, along with their new neighbours the Dwyers, are caught up in the theatre of war.įrom the horrors of Gallipoli to the bloody battles of the Somme, through love lost and found, the Great Depression and the desperate jungle war along the Kokoda Track, this sprawling family drama brings to life a time long past. Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, uncreased spine, no inscriptions (see photographs) ![]() ![]() ![]() At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her. Harlequin Mira, 2015, ISBN 9781743692141, paperback An Anzac tale of three families whose destinies are entwined by war, tragedy and passion. ![]()
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