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    Laura Bloom: In the Mood

    laura-bloom-coverThe beautiful cover for Laura Bloom’s novel, In the Mood, which is to be published by Viking/ Penguin Australia in February, 2010.

    It’s February 1946, and Robert Booker is just home from the war. Home is a pretty weather-board house in Summer Hill, where his wife, Catherine, is waiting.

    They haven’t seen each other for three years, yet they are separated by so much more than time.

    Robert is haunted by the battlefields of New Guinea, and Catherine harbours the guilt of her affair with a charismatic US Marine – and other secrets too painful to confront.

    Her heart divided between two men, Catherine finds herself longing for all she has lost.

    With all that’s changed between them, can Catherine and Robert find their way back to each other again?

    Set in post war Sydney, this is a heart-wrenching, evocative novel about love and work, fidelity, betrayal and intimacy.

    Topics: Laura Bloom, Novels | 1 Comment »

    One Response to “Laura Bloom: In the Mood”

    1. Michael Davis Says:
      December 25th, 2009 at 9:44 am

      Hi Luara,

      It is Christmas Eve here in Santiago, Chile, and I just finished a telephone call with my beautiful wife, Carol, who told me about your new novel. I recall you giving us the briefest of plot outlines quite some time ago and now your novel is a reality. You must be so proud and everyone must be so proud of you and your literary accomplishments.

      I wish you well and, of course, Congratulations,

      Michael Davis

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