This was an audio book and even though it was written in a
strange format I really enjoyed it. The
story started in 1977 then went back to 1946 covering several different people
who seemingly had no relationship with each other. As the story developed it turns out that they
were all involved in the one story which touched them all along the way.
“A sleek high-speed train glides silently through the French
countryside, bearing Michael, an Australian writer, and his travelling world of
memory and speculation. Melbourne, 1946, calls to him: the pressure cooker of
the city during World War II has produced a small creative miracle, and at this
pivotal moment the lives of his newly married parents, a group of restless
artists, a proud old woman with a tent for a home, a journalist, a gallery
owner, a farmer and a factory developer irrevocably intersect. And all the
while the Spirit of Progress, the locomotive of the new age, roars through
their lives like time′s arrow, pointing to the future and the post-war world
only some of them will enter."
Robyn S.
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