Love in the years of lunacy

Title: Love in the years of lunacy
Author: Sayer, Mandy, 1963-
Narrator: Hood, Kate
Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio
Release Year: 2014
Set in: 1940s, Sydney, NSW

About the Book:
Sydney, 1942. Pearl was eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She played saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero.

One day she sneaked into the blacks-only Booker T Washington Club, and she was mesmerised by James Washington, a black GI and sax player, and the romance started.

Award-winning Australian novelist and memoirist Sayer has created a compelling and layered Pacific WWII love story, a moving and tender story of forbidden love.

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Sarah Thornhill

Title: Sarah Thornhill
Author: Grenville, Kate, 1950-
Narrator: Stevenson, Kaye
Audiobook
Publisher: Queensland Narrating Service
Release Year: 2013
Set in: Colonial Australia (1788-1851), Hawkesbury River, NSW

About the Book:
It is a moving double love story - of wild, romantic love and a slower, more mature, developing variety - an imaginatively convincing recreation of history and a celebration of country tenderly and beautifully observed. It is a powerful plea for due acknowledgement and remembrance of the veils of the past...

Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. She is a strong-willed young woman who's certain where her future lies. She's known Jack Langland since she was a child, and always loved him. But the past is waiting in ambush with its dark legacy. There is a secret in Sarah's family, a piece of the past kept hidden from the world and from her. A secret Jack can't live with...