
$30.40
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
The Unspoken Pact: A Novel of Post-War Secrets and Sacrifice
In the autumn of 1949, two women meet in a Melbourne hotel, their lives poised on the brink of irreversible change. Tess, yearning for a child she cannot have, and Mary, pregnant and unmarried, forge a life-altering agreement: Mary will give her child to Tess.
One year prior, Mary arrives in the devastated Japanese city of Kure as part of the Australian occupation force. Amidst the ruins, she encounters a world of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761351426 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761351427 |
| Author: | Chloe Adams |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Chloe Adams
Chloe Adams is the winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize. She is a journalist and fiction writer and has been published widely by Australian news mastheads and literary journals. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing and a graduate certificate of international and community development. Her love of literature was shaped by her mother, an actress, playwright and passionate second-hand bookstore owner. Chloe has lived in the UK, Timor Leste and Adelaide, and now calls Naarm/Melbourne home.
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