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Party people

Fictionalising Labor’s years of hope
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March 2022, no. 440

A Great Hope by Jessica Stanley

Picador, $32.99 pb, 406 pp

Party people

Fictionalising Labor’s years of hope
by
March 2022, no. 440
Jessica Stanley (photograph via Pan Macmillan Australia)

There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen,’ Vladimir Lenin has been credited with saying, with reference to the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s a sentiment that immediately springs to mind when reading Jessica Stanley’s A Great Hope, a début that, while not billed as historical fiction, is deeply concerned with history and its making. 

Laura Elizabeth Woollett reviews 'A Great Hope' by Jessica Stanley

A Great Hope

by Jessica Stanley

Picador, $32.99 pb, 406 pp

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