And in the Morning
by Lenny Robinson

A prismatic gem of a debut novel that reflects the experiences of three women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love – it is capacious and intimate in equal measure

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Overview

In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home Lily’s husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse in the Middle East. Twenty-three years later, as the same city awaits a Japanese invasion, Frankie, a young servicewoman on a night’s leave, meets an airman, Ed, at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, a single mother, Fran, prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam.

And in the Morning is a novel about war and the ways in which its tragedies, both great and small, transform the intimate lives of the mothers, wives and lovers who must live with its consequences.

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Heather Rose

‘A hauntingly beautiful novel of women and war. An exceptional debut.’

Sophie Cunningham

‘Lenny Robinson writes like a dream and understands the power of space: between a breath, a sentence, a war, and most painfully and brutally of all, between the men who go to fight overseas and the women who are left to pick up the pieces back home. Delicate, nuanced, And in the Morning is a beautiful and unexpected novel.’

Lenny Robinson

Lenny Robinson has worked as a tutor, university lecturer, freelance writer and teacher. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Overland, Westerly, Island and The Best Australian Essays. She is the author of This Moral Pandemonium (2009), a short biography of notorious 19th-century figure Madame Brussels, and several philosophy textbooks. Lenny lives with her partner and children in Naarm, Victoria.