Reading Group Guide. This reading group guide for The Railwayman’s Wife includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a QA with author Ashley Hay. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your bltadwin.rued on: Decem. · ‘The Railwayman’s Wife’ by Ashley Hay. My husband bought a copy of ‘The Railwayman’s Wife‘ in an independent bookshop some years ago, and it has languished on our bedroom bookcase, until, in line with my new philosophy of ‘let’s explore what we already own’ my husband chose it for me. Finally, I dipped in. ‘The Railwayman’s Wife’ by Ashley Hay repays close . Ashley Hay is the internationally acclaimed author of four nonfiction books, including The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron, and the novels The Body in the Clouds and The Railwayman's Wife, which was honored with the Colin Roderick Award by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the most prestigious .
Ashley Hay is the internationally acclaimed author of the novels A Hundred Small Lessons, The Body in the Clouds, and The Railwayman's Wife, which was honored with the Colin Roderick Award by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the most prestigious literary prize in Australia, among numerous other accolades. Her previous novel, The Railwayman's Wife, was published in Australia, the UK, the US, and is heading for translation into Italian, French and Dutch. It won the Colin Roderick Prize (awarded by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies), a. Ashley Hay's new novel, A Hundred Small Lessons, was published in Australia, the US and the UK. Ashley Hay's novel of love and pain is a true book of wonders." -- Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Secret Chord "The Railwayman's Wife is a fine evocation of place and time - a vivid love letter to a particular corner of post-war Australia. Ashley Hay writes with subtle insight about grief and loss and the heart's.
Written in clear, shining prose and with an eloquent understanding of the human heart, The Railwayman’s Wife explores the power of beginnings and endings, and how hard it can sometimes be to tell them apart. It’s a story of life, loss, and what comes after; of connection and separation, longing and acceptance. The Railwayman’s Wife, by Ashley Hay. I am a bit late to the party with my reading of The Railwayman’s Wife: it has been widely reviewed everywhere so I shall simply share a few thoughts. The novel is a meditation on love and loss, set in post-war coastal New South Wales in the small town of Thirroul. The beauty of the environment is a constant solace, but it is not impervious to the war and its aftermath. ‘The Railwayman’s Wife’ by Ashley Hay. My husband bought a copy of ‘The Railwayman’s Wife‘ in an independent bookshop some years ago, and it has languished on our bedroom bookcase, until, in line with my new philosophy of ‘let’s explore what we already own’ my husband chose it for me.
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