The Everlasting Sunday
University of Queensland Press, $29.95 pb, 224 pp, 9780702260056
Fiction
The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins
by Anna MacDonald •
Set in England during the Big Freeze of 1962–63 – the coldest winter in nearly 300 years – Robert Lukins’s first novel tells the story of Radford, who is sent to live at Goodwin Manor, ‘a place for boys who have been found by trouble’. The Manor is overseen by Teddy, a charismatic depressive, who resists pressure to establish a ‘philosophy’ of reform and instead determines ‘only to keep [the boys in his care] alive’.
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