A prismatic gem of a debut novel that reflects the experiences of women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love.

Plt;bPgt;The moving story of three Australian women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love.Plt;/bPgt; In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home LilyP#8217;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 WAAAF on a nightP#8217;s leave from the service, 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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;And in the MorningPlt;/iPgt; 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.

Details

ISBN13: 9780702268847
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 256
Edition:
Publication Date: 04 Aug 2026
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Publication City, Country: St Lucia, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 22.7(H)x15.2(L)x1.8(W)306
Weight (gm): 306

Author Biography

Lenny Robinson has worked as a tutor, university lecturer, freelance writer and teacher. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Plt;iPgt;OverlandPlt;/iPgt;, Plt;iPgt;Westerly, IslandPlt;/iPgt; and Plt;iPgt;Best Australian EssaysPlt;/iPgt;. She is the author of Plt;iPgt;This Moral PandemoniumPlt;/iPgt;, a short biography of notorious 19th-century figure Madame Brussels, as well as a novel, Plt;iPgt;And in the MorningPlt;/iPgt;. Lenny Robinson lives with her partner and two children in Naarm, Victoria.

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