Lenny Robinson at Malvern Library

Join author Lenny Robinson as she discusses her powerful debut novel, And in the Morning.

Spanning three generations, 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.

In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home Lily's husband, Bert, who has spend 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 meets airman Ed at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, single mother Fran prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam.

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