The Blue Mile
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The Blue Mile
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Narrated by:
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Zoe Ellerton-Ashley
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James Harvy
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By:
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Kim Kelly
About this listen
The week before Christmas, 1929, Eoghan O'Keenan loses his factory job, and has to flee the slums of Chippendale with his seven-year-old sister Agnes. On the north side of Sydney at Lavender Bay, Olivia Greene is working on her latest millinery creations and dreaming of becoming the next Coco Chanel.
A job on the Harbour Bridge for Eoghan, designing couture for the Governor's wife for Olivia, and a chance meeting in the Botanic Gardens sees the beginning of an unconventional romance. From vastly different backgrounds, with absolutely nothing in common - from faith to wealth and class - it seems that the blue mile of harbour between Olivia and Eoghan will be the least of the obstacles ahead.
By mid-1932, as the construction of the Bridge is completed, the city is in chaos as the Great Depression begins to bite hard and the unemployed edge ever closer to a violent revolt. And then Eoghan disappears.
Set against the spectacular backdrop of Sydney Harbour, The Blue Mile is a tale of the both wild and calculated risks a city took to build a wonder of the world, and of those taken by ordinary people to save a great love, against all of the odds.
©2014 Copyright © Kim Kelly 2014 (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about The Blue Mile
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- Mari
- 28-05-2020
Fascinating time period
I went down the rabbit hole of googling about the building of the Sydney Harbour bridge because of this book and I think Kim Kelly captured the time period wonderfully. The politics of the period are truly fascinating and this book really brought to light the very real class differences that existed during this period where so many people had no jobs or homes. Wonderful narration as well.
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- Esther Matthews
- 13-06-2022
Such a beautiful interesting read.
I loved this book! The author is a wonderful descriptive writer and the narrators did an absolutely fabulous job of reading it. 😍
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- Colleen Hourigan
- 21-11-2019
Good old fashion Australia
Nice wholesome story line .
Love Australian settings in Old town Sydney.
Wish I lived there.
A lovely read for anyone.
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