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    Act of Grace

    Written by Anna Krien

    Narrated by Zoe Carides

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    The exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games.
    Australian soldier Toohey returns from Baghdad in 2003 with shrapnel in his neck, crippled by PTSD and white-knuckling life. In the Iraq of a decade earlier, aspiring pianist Nasim falls from favour with Saddam Hussein and his psychopathic son Uday, triggering a perilous search for safety. In Melbourne as the millennium turns, Robbie, faced with her father's dementia and the family silences that may never find voice, tests boundaries. And in the present day, Gerry seeks to escape his father Toohey's tyranny and heal its wounds.
    These characters' worlds intertwine across time and place, in a brilliant story of fear and sacrifice, trauma and survival, and what people will do to outrun the shadows.
    A searing, powerful and utterly original work by an exceptional Australian writer. It will leave you changed.

    “Act of Grace is a work of stunning virtuosity. Krien has taken a huge leap of creative faith, and from the very first page to the last I was ready to follow her anywhere.” CERIDWEN DOVEY, of In the Garden of the Fugitives
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateNov 1, 2019
    ISBN9781528885553
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    Anna Krien

    Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. Anna's writing has been published in The Monthly, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship.

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