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This thrilling and beautifully written novel was highly acclaimed when
released into the young adult market, winning the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary
Award and shortlisted for the 1999 CBC Book of the Year Award. The Divine
Wind beautifully evokes the destructive power of war and its effects on
people torn from all they know and hold dear in childhood. Set in Broome
during the Second World War, it details the lives of four friends who
unconsciously cross the boundaries of class and race, as they swim, joke
and watch films in the cinema in Sheba Lane. But as the war worsens, and
Japanese bombs begin to fall like silver rain, loyalties are divided and
friendships take on an altogether different form. |
