Winner of the 1995 national Australia Remembers prize.
Winner of the 1995 national Australia Remembers prize.
In 1945, Sheila and Bridie were freed from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Now, after a half-century apart, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past.
'Misto interweaves his potent factual research with a compelling fictional drama that rises almost to the level of a love story.'
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALDJOHN MISTO is an Arts/Law graduate from the University of New South Wales. He has been a writer since 1981, after working as a solicitor. His play Harp on the Willow won the Rodney Seaborn Playwright's Award for Best New Australian Play. The Shoe-Horn Sonata won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Best Play and the Australia Remembers National Play Competition. For his work in television he has won three AFI Awards and three Australian Writers' Guild Awards. He also has written a crime fiction novel, The Devil's Companions.
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