$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador / ISBN:9780330422888)
Love Without Hope
The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her committed to an insane asylum. The time is 1982; the place, a country town in NSW. The NSW Department of Lunacy is still in operation, headed by an official with the title The Master in Lunacy.
In this powerful novel, finding herself pitted against the power of the state, Mrs Shoddy calls on her memories of her missing husband, on the spirit of her horses and on the recovery of her self-respect and resilience to create a world in which she can remain sane, even against the institutional brutality she is subjected to. And the characters in her mind become as palpable as the real people she is surrounded by.
A hymn of praise to human tenderness, the power of memory and the power of music, Love Without Hope confirms Rodney Hall's status as one of Australia's finest storytellers.
Miles Franklin Shortlist 2008
The Time We Have Taken
$27.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
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$35.00 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
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The Fern Tattoo
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
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Love Without Hope
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »
Miles Franklin Longlist 2008
Sorry
Gail Jones
The Widow And Her Hero
Tom Keneally
Love Without Hope
Rodney Hall
Secrets Of The Sea
Nicholas Shakespeare
Rodney Hall
Love Without Hope
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her c... More »
Last Love Story
$22.00 (Paperback book / Picador )
How far would you go to save the person you love most? In the near future, after a violent uprising, a city is divided in two. In City North, a brutal and paranoid regime takes control. Across the Friendship Bridge in Ci... More »
Day We Had Hitler Home
$28.00 (Paperback book / Picador )
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