Grand Days

by Frank Moorhouse
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Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be.

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On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, makes his acquaintance over a lunch of six courses, and allows him to kiss her passionately.Their early intimacy binds them together once they reach Geneva and their posts at the newly created League of Nations. There, a heady idealism prevails over Edith and her young colleagues, and nothing seems beyond their grasp, certainly not world peace. The exuberance of the times carries over into Geneva nights: Edith is drawn into a dark and glamorous underworld where, coaxed by Ambrose, she becomes more and more sexually adventurous.Reading Grand Days is a rare experience: it is vivid and wise, full of shocks of recognition and revelation. The final effect of the book is intoxicating and unplaceably original.

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Nov 14

Frank Moorhouse's COLD LIGHT

by Margaret Seale on 14 November 2011

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For anyone who is a fan of the heroine of this trilogy, Edith Campbell Berry, having the last book in this trilogy published is a tragedy. It’s the end. You know that feeling?   Edith was born into literary fame in 1993 with the publication of GRAND DAYS.   DARK PALACE was published in 2001 and won the Miles Franklin Award.   And now COLD LIGHT in 2011,...

Feb 25

Things that take twenty years to complete

by Meredith Curnow on 25 February 2011

Things that take twenty years to complete 0 comments

If you drive down the Pacific Highway, and I know it is a very long road, you can probably feel the pulse of excitement pumping through the Random House office. Frank Moorhouse has delivered the third novel in his League of Nations series and it is a CRACKER. Edith Campbell Berry and her ‘rules to live by’, first demanded readers attention in Grand Days in 1993, and as Bert and I discussed with Frank...

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