At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock
London 1949. The lives of three very different but struggling women intersect when a young woman is condemned to hang after committing a crime of passion.
London 1949. The lives of three very different but struggling women intersect when a young woman is condemned to hang after committing a crime of passion.
A teacher’s friendship with a student is questioned when he’s found stabbed during a schoolyard scuffle.
Journey across a century of change as one man explores the world through this mother’s eyes and discovers that the villain of his childhood was someone really rather extraordinary.
After five decades of angry anti-war poems, attacking the government’s atomic policies, and chaining herself to embassy railings, Lucy is enraged when she’s invited to the palace to receive a “New Year’s Honour”, whatever that is.
1884. A couple lose their two infant sons when they mistake scarlet fever for teething. Years later, the husband dreams of heavenly gardens where his shadow-sons play, but is it just a dream? Or a vision?
The justice system has failed the families of the 58 people who set off for work one morning in August 2003 but never made it home. A law student has studied the chain of events that led to the accident and thinks he has the answers, but do the families have the strength for one last fight?
When a wall collapses on their thirteen-year-old daughter, a married couple place their faith in differing solutions, pushing their relationship to the breaking point.
Siz-year-old Belinda knows her mother isn’t like the other mothers who gather at the school gates. She’s different somehow, and Belinda intends to collect all the nuggets of information to figure out the mystery.