Above the Fold
About this ebook
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Luke Elliott and Claudia Marsden have fallen in love at a perilous time. The Second World War is raging in the Pacific, barbed wire and gun emplacements are strung along the northern beaches of Sydney in preparation for invasion.
As the war moves closer, their ‘sextet’ of loyal school friends is splintering as individual career dreams are pursued. Luke yearns to be a writer, but a start in journalism is proving challenging.
The war’s end unexpectedly provides Luke’s big break, but the pursuit of his dream will keep him away from Australia and Claudia, with surprising consequences for them both.
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"Written with meticulous detail, this is an engaging story spanning a tumultuous period in Australian history.”
- Nicole Alexander, The Great Plains
About the author
Peter Yeldham’s extensive writing career began with short stories and radio scripts. He spent 20 years in England becoming a leading screenwriter for films and television, also writing plays for the theatre including Birds on the Wing and Fringe Benefits, which ran for over two years in Paris.
Returning to Australia he won numerous awards for mini-series among them 1915, Captain James Cook, The Alien Years, All the Rivers Run, The Timeless Land and Heroes. His adaptation of Bryce Courtenay’s Jessica won a Logie Award for best mini-series.
Also by Peter Yeldham - Dragons in the Forest , The Last Double Sunrise, Barbed Wire and Roses and A Bitter Harvest.
