Daughters of Mars E-bok

Inspired by the letters and journals of Australian nurses, this is wonderfully - but never obtrusively - researched. It is superbly exciting to read; one expects no less form the author of Schindler's Ark. An unmissable, unforgettable tribute. The Times phrasemaking of such powerful resonance that the result is something few authors would aim for, let alone achieve: genuine grandeur...Keneally retains his miraculous sense of originality...The sudden jolting appearance of an unexpected but unimprovable word is a feat he pulls off again and again...Keneally never loses sight of the individual members of his increasingly huge cast, treating the themes of family and friendship with the same mixture of quiet seriousness and page-turning brio as he tackles the war. James Walton, Telegraph Along with a Tolstoyan ability to describe the horrors of battle, this amazing book also has an extraordinary intimacy, especially in the relationship between the sisters (again, Tolstoy comes to mind.)...an altogether towering achievement. AN Wilson, Readers Digest The skill of Tom Keneally is that he writes with a large scope on matters from the Irish diaspora to convict life in Australia, the Holocaust and now World War I, but his stories are engagingly intimate. Julie Thomson, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Tom Keneally excels in exploring how tragedy brings out both the best and the worst in individuals, and his memorable characters...provide some surprising flashes of humour and touching romance amid the carnage. This is a novel which effortlessly balances the epic and the intimate and which, despite its unusual ending, is a profoundly satisfying story. We Love This Book Complex, dark and filled with unexpected turns, The Daughters of Mars is a moving novel, which is as much about the strained relationship between two women as the perils of war...a gripping and emotional read. Easy Living ...a vibrant epic of effortless scope and humanity which is lifted further by its dynamic heroines. It will take your breath away The Simple Things This is a psychologically convincing tale of two ordinary women's experience of the thoroughly masculine world of war Francesca Angelini, Sunday Times Keneally's magic makes his shop-worn subject seem fresh...Over and over again, a brief but brilliant phrase (an injured soldier "writhing and trembling but with a good-mannered lack of excess") turns a statistic into a real person and wrings compassion from you. Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published twenty-five novels since. They include SCHINDLER'S ARK, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, CONFEDERATES and GOSSIP FROM THE FOREST, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novels are THE WIDOW AND HER HERO, THE PEOPLE'S TRAIN and THE DAUGHTERS OF MARS. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his boyhood memoir HOMEBUSH BOY, THE COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES and SEARCHING FOR SCHINDLER. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.