<DIV><p><B>Winner of Australian "Indies" Fiction Book of the Year 2013.</B></p><p>One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak.</p><p>It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business?your own and everyone else's?as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life.</p><p>Ambitious in scope and structure, triumphantly realised, this is a novel about one family and every family. It is about dreams and fights and sacrifices. And finally, of course, it is?as it must be?about love.</p><p><B>Toni Jordan</B> has a BSc in physiology and qualifications in marketing and professional writing. Her debut novel, <I>Addition</I>, has been published in sixteen countries and won numerous awards. Jordan lives in Melbourne, Australia.</p><BR></DIV>