Richard Lovat Somers, an English writer, and his wife Harriet arrive in Sydney in 1922 and rent a bungalow called Torestin. Their neighbour Jack Callcott draws Somers toward a secret league of returned soldiers led by a magnetic lawyer nicknamed Kangaroo, while socialists court him from the other side and memories of wartime England torment him.
Lawrence’s novel of his Australian months, full of the bush, the sea and his restless thinking about power. Download the free EPUB.