Join us to discuss a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship with Cath McKinnon, in conversation with Sarah Turnbull.

DECEMBER 1944. In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse chances upon her first love, a soldier in the Allies’ hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.

Each yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them; shame shapes them; hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake.

Thursday 13 February 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC+11)

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66 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon Beach NSW 2107

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