The Golden Age
By Joan London
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It is 1954 and thirteen-year-old Frank Gold, refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio in Australia. At the Golden Age Children’s Polio Convalescent Home in Perth, he sees Elsa, a fellow patient, and they form a forbidden, passionate bond.
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The Golden Age
9780857981547
by Joan London
Random House Australia
1 August 2014
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English
Awards
Shortlisted for The Stella Prize 2015 AU
Shortlisted for Asher Literary Award 2015 AU
Winner of Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2015 AU
Shortlisted for Australian Book Industry Awards 2015 AU
Long-listed for The Voss Literary Prize 2015
Shortlisted for Colin Roderick Award 2015
Winner of Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 2016 AU
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015 AU
Winner of Queensland Literary Awards 2015 AU
Long-listed for 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award 2016
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015 AU
Shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal Award 2015 AU
Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award 2015
Winner of Nita B Kibble Literary Awards 2015 AU