Paperback: In the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, a young soldier makes a horrifying discovery; a discovery that sends the love of his life on a most incredible journey.
In the spring of 1956, British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner accepts a twelve-month posting to Maralinga, South Australia, on a promise of rapid promotion. Instead, he finds himself in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement born from involvement in a nuclear testing site.
Adventurous journalist Elizabeth Hoffmann travels halfway around the world searching for answers, and her lost love. Here, she discovers the truth about this desolate place, and the story of the innocent people who had walked their land unhindered for forty thousand years, until now.
Maralinga - a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason. The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence - Maralinga (2011) has them all.
About the author: Judy Nunn's career has been long, illustrious and multifaceted. After combining her internationally successful acting career with scriptwriting for television and radio, Judy decided in the 90s to turn her hand to prose.
Her first three novels, The Glitter Game, Centre Stage and Araluen, set respectively in the worlds of television, theatre and film, became instant bestsellers, and the rest is history, quite literally, in fact. She has since developed a love of writing Australian historically-based fiction and her fame as a novelist has spread rapidly throughout Europe where she is published in English, German, French, Dutch, Czech and Spanish.
Her subsequent bestsellers, Kal, Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, Floodtide, Maralinga, Tiger Men, Elianne and Spirits of the Ghan confirmed Judy’s position as one of Australia’s leading fiction writers.
In 2015, Judy was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "significant service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author".
Rating: 5/5
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