Pip Williams and Toni Jordan in conversation
Readings Bookshop
We are delighted to offer you this once in a Melbourne springtime opportunity to hear from award winning Pip Williams chat with Toni Jordan about her new book, The German Ward. France, 1915. An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later. At first the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can’t look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell? The love story of the year, The German Ward is a breathtaking tale of love between enemies behind the lines of WW1 and the Australian artist who captures their secret. Tickets General: $65 per person, includes a signed first edition of The German Ward Concession: $55 per person, includes a signed first edition of The German Ward
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