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The Telegraph

Publisher
  
Vintage, Australia

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Followed by
  
Shame and the Captives

Author
  
Thomas Keneally

ISBN
  
9781864712254

Preceded by
  
The People's Train

3.6/5
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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
2012

Pages
  
592

Originally published
  
2012

Page count
  
592

Country
  
Australia

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Thomas Keneally books, World War II books

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The Daughters of Mars is a 2012 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally.

Contents

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Plot summary

Sally and Naomi Durance are two nurses from country New South Wales who are shipped to Egypt during World War I end up on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes, stationed in the Dardanelles. The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe.

Reviews

  • The Guardian
  • The Sydney Morning Herald
  • The Telegraph

    • Awards and nominations

  • 2012 winner Colin Roderick Award
  • 2013 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
  • 2013 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
  • 2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
  • 2014 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

    • References

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