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The Tower Mill

by James Moloney

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A gripping family drama that plays out against a turbulent and controversial political era, this book tells the tale of Susan Kinnane. She isthe precocious daughter of conservative parents who spurns the attention of fellow university student Mike Riley in favor of a passionate romance with activist Terry Stoddard. When the South African Rugby team goes on the road, Terry, Susan, and Mike join the anti-apartheid demonstrations outside the Springbok? hotel near the iconic Tower Mill. Late in the night, the riot police charge, and the terrified students are hunted into the darkened park below. What happens next changes each of their lives forever. Eight months later, Susan gives birth to a son, Tom, whose destiny is shaped by a man who is not his father, and by the events of that shocking night. As a lawyer working in London decades later, Tom must return to make peace with the past. This novel combines the youthful passion and enthusiastic activism of the 1970s with the racism of the apartheid era in a vibrant and tumultuous story that will enthrall readers to the final page.… (more)
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I am already liking this book mostly because it's based in and around Brisbane where I lived during the early/ mid 1980's and went to University so I actually know most of the places in it so far. There's a lot about this book I'm liking... Short chapters told from just two perspectives keeps it simple and moving along at a good pace; a political era I have at least some knowledge about having lived in the state it's based in during the time of the Fitzgerald Inquiry and Joh's " reign" so it was recent/ present history of that time In personal terms; a good believable story; the character of Susan in particular is so believable even in her darkest moments and in her conflicted role as biological if not emotional mother to Tom.

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A gripping family drama that plays out against a turbulent and controversial political era, this book tells the tale of Susan Kinnane. She isthe precocious daughter of conservative parents who spurns the attention of fellow university student Mike Riley in favor of a passionate romance with activist Terry Stoddard. When the South African Rugby team goes on the road, Terry, Susan, and Mike join the anti-apartheid demonstrations outside the Springbok? hotel near the iconic Tower Mill. Late in the night, the riot police charge, and the terrified students are hunted into the darkened park below. What happens next changes each of their lives forever. Eight months later, Susan gives birth to a son, Tom, whose destiny is shaped by a man who is not his father, and by the events of that shocking night. As a lawyer working in London decades later, Tom must return to make peace with the past. This novel combines the youthful passion and enthusiastic activism of the 1970s with the racism of the apartheid era in a vibrant and tumultuous story that will enthrall readers to the final page.

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