{"product_id":"cold-light-1","title":"Cold Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Campbell Berry, who joined the League in Geneva before the war, is out of a job, her vision shattered. With her sexually unconventional husband, Ambrose, she comes back to Australia to live in Canberra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith now has ambitions to become Australia's first female ambassador, but while she waits for a Call from On High, she finds herself caught up in the planning of the national capital and the dream that it should be 'a city like no other'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen her communist brother, Frederick, turns up out of the blue after many years of absence, she becomes concerned that he may jeopardise her chances of becoming a diplomat. It is not a safe time to be a communist in Australia or to be related to one, but she refuses to be cowed by the anti-communist sentiment sweeping the country. It is also not a safe time or place to be 'a wife with a lavender husband'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter pursuing the Bloomsbury life for many years, Edith finds herself fearful of being exposed. Unexpectedly, in mid-life she also realises that she yearns for children. When she meets a man who could offer not only security but a ready-made family, she consults the Book of Crossroads and the answer changes the course of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntelligent, poignant and absorbing, Cold Light is a remarkable stand-alone novel, which can also be read as a companion to the earlier Edith novels Grand Days and Dark Palace.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frank Moorhouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43050020733097,"sku":"9781742759111","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/cold-light.webp?v=1683179139","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/cold-light-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}