Title Cold light / Frank Moorhouse

Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2011 North Sydney, N.S.W. : Knopf, 2011

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Description 719 pages ; 24 cm regular print Series Edith trilogy Moorhouse, Frank, 1938- Edith trilogy Summary It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had moved from trying to make a world capital in Geneva to a dusty town trying to become a national capital. Edith has ambitions to be Australia's first female Ambassador and is seeking a position in Canberra with the Department of External Affairs. Finding her ambitions thwarted in this area Edith vigorously involves herself in the building of the new centre of civilization. Frederick, Edith's brother, who disappeared from her life before she left Australia, reacquaints himself with her and introduces Edith to the Australian Communist Party in which he is a leader. Frederick's relationship to Edith, in the time of the Communist Party Dissolution Act is a threat to Ambrose's career with the High Commission, or does it provide him with an opportunity to spy? After pursuing the Bloomsbury life for many years, Edith now finds herself questioning her sexuality and why she has been prepared to settle for being 'a wife with a lavender husband' and yearns for a family. Richard, who audaciously laid his hand on her leg at a dinner party hosted by Prime Minister Menzies, ultimately fulfils these desires by marrying Edith and providing her with two step-sons. Uranium has been discovered in Australia and Richard is involved in its study and exploitation. Atomic energy has always been an interest of Edith and she takes a role on the Uranium Desk - which she re-names for her own purposes the Atoms for Peace desk - at Parliament House. Cold Light completes the circle begun in Grand Days, the search for symbolic sites to achieve great civic enterprises Analysis Australian Notes "A companion to the earlier Edith novels Grand Days and Dark palace"--Jacket flap Also available in electronic version via the Internet Miles Franklin Award, 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Christina Stead Prize: Shortlist (2013) Subject Australian fiction. Berry, Edith Campbell (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Australia -- Canberra (A.C.T.) -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Australia -- Australian Capital Territory -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships. Women diplomats -- Fiction. Women diplomats. SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Australia -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 Canberra (A.C.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021725 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Canberra (A.C.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021725 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Novels. Author Moorhouse, Frank, 1938- Dark palace Moorhouse, Frank, 1938- Grand days ISBN 1741661269 (paperback) 9781741661262 (paperback) 9781742753881 (hbk.)

Other Titles Dark palace Grand days

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