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When Collette is commissioned to write a biography of her grandmother, Evangeline Melville, a well-know pre-World War II Australian children's writer, who spoke at rallies for the unemployed and encouraged children to be proud to be Australian early in the Nation's history, she immerses herself in Eve's world to numb herself against her husband's infidelity. The story is set in modern day Sydney and the small country town of Claret in the tumultuous times of the Great Depression and World War II where Eve is the centre of a circle of left wing writers and swagman poets. Despite her socialist leanings and eccentric friends, the townsfolk regard Eve as one of their own and how they interact shows much about how Australia used to be. However, Colette is haunted by one of her earliest memories of her grandmother shooting at an unseen stranger through the front door and as her research unravels the mystery, Collette discovers her grandmother had a secret life.

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"In Search of Evangeline Melville" is written by Shelley Phillips. It is a text for back cover. When Collette is commissioned to write a biography of her grandmother, Evangeline Melville, a well-know pre-World War II Australian children's writer, who spoke at rallies for the unemployed and encouraged children to be proud to be Australian early in the Nation's history, she immerses herself in Eve's world to numb herself against her husband's infidelity. The story is set in modern day Sydney and the small country town of Claret in the tumultuous times of the Great Depression and World War II where Eve is the centre of a circle of left wing writers and swagman poets. Despite her socialist leanings and eccentric friends, the townsfolk regard Eve as one of their own and how they interact shows much about how Australia used to be. However, Colette is haunted by one of her earliest memories of her grandmother shooting at an unseen stranger through the front door and as her research unravels the mystery, Collette discovers her grandmother had a secret life.

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