Laura - In Search of a True Self

"Laura" is first and foremost a love story. It's an evocation of an almost lost generation, their discovery, their protest, their fight with the status quo, with reconstruction, and their search for a better life. We are taken back to post-war Melbourne, to the fifties and sixties, to an era of absolute social change, seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Laura and Matty. Laura is intense, strong, clever, iconoclastic, but fascinated by new feminist thinking and philosophy and careless of her role and reputation in her search for meaning and truth. Matty is more vulnerable as he is conservative, disturbed by Laura's longing for change but uncertain of his place within her world. This Laura is not to be confused with Vera Caspary's heroine, or the 1944 film, of the same name. This book will appeal to all. It is a past world but nevertheless, fascinating.