Shell by Kristina Olsson (Paperback) (2019) (New)

Name: Shell by Kristina Olsson (Paperback) (2019) (New)
Brand: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Simon & Schuster Ltd

ShellAuthor(s): Kristina Olsson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Scribner UK\nISBN-13: 9781471172656, 978-1471172656\nSynopsis\n'The day the great man sang, heat blazed in haloes over Bennelong Point. This is what Pearl will remember, later, this is what she will say: that his voice turned the air holy. Men, sweat-slicked, stood with bowed heads or hung off scaffolds, swatting at flies and tears. Few looked at the singer; they needed all their senses to hear. Needed their whole bodies, skin and eyes and hearts, to absorb what they couldnt say: that sacredness had returned to this place. It flowed through them on a single human voice, through their bodies and the building that was rising beneath their hands.' A shimmering love letter to Sydney, with the husk of the emerging Opera House its beating heart Required reading Australian Womens Weekly Sydney, 1960s: newspaper reporter Pearl Keogh has been relegated to the womens pages as pue