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Fiction book review
The Daughters of Mars
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Thomas Keneally. London, UK: Sceptre, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-0-340-95188-0. Price; £8.99. Pages: 528 (paperback)
The Daughters of Mars is set in the First World War, but is not so much about the war as the effect it has on those caught up in it. It is about sibling relationships and rivalry, friendship, and ordinary folk living in utterly extraordinary times.
Sally and Naomi Durance are both nurses. They grow up in small-town Australia, but Naomi escapes to a wider world, leaving Sally nursing their …