Where children must learn that they are alone, even within their families. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs, love and desire, music, death, and poetry. It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia.Īt the Golden Age Children's Polio Convalescent Hospital in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow-patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond. All of them, like him, stranded, wanting to go home. A great wave had swept them up and dumped them here. He felt like a pirate landing on an island of little maimed animals. From one of Australia's most loved novelists. This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of life.
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