Lilian's Story
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The first book by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River
Singer Family Series
This series delves into the depths of the human psyche, tracing the life of an unconventional woman across decades, from the turbulent years before World War II to her later life. We follow her extraordinary journey, marked by a troubled upbringing in small-town Australia, a brief taste of freedom at university, and a subsequent long decline. Despite tragic themes, the narratives are rendered with exceptional readability and profound psychological insight, making for compelling and unforgettable storytelling.
Recommended Reading Order
- 1
Dark Places
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
This is Albion Gidley Singer at the pen, a man with a weakness for a good fact. The first fact is always the hardest: you have to begin somewhere, and such is the nature of this intractable universe that the only thing you can start with is yourself. Dark Places, a companion novel to Lilian’s Story, is the tale of a man with a comically grand exterior who believes he has the right, and the duty, to conquer the mocking flesh of any woman. Even his own daughter.