Snapshots from Home

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Many of our townsfolk will be familiar with the sight of schoolteacher Miss Edith Stark and her small assistant Miss Katherine Macmillan calling upon the homes of our countrys bravest to take heart-warming portraits of the soldiers near and dear, whether these be animal, mineral or vegetable. One wonders whether our boys are teasing when they request snapshots of anything from a farm shed to a pretty maidservant or even a loved cow. Its 1917 when Edie takes up a teaching post in a small Australian town. Breaking all of her fathers rules of respectability, she agrees to take part in a scheme to send photos of home to the troops. Edies mourning the loss of her beloved brother on the front - Aubrey was the person who believed most in her, and her dreams of becoming a photographer died with him. For now shes kept busy teaching science to the girls at Miss Raisons School for Girls, and avoiding making the respectable marriage her father seems intent on. York is full of social intrigues and big characters, and Edies new role throws her into the path of family secrets, small scandals and class complexities of the people that make up this thriving regional town - and a handsome, exasperating man her father would never approve of. With each new encounter, her world gets bigger, and more complex, and shes asked to make choices that could throw her cautious life upside down - and change the very course of history. Charming and heartfelt, this is Australian historical fiction at its best, with a cast of characters worth writing home about. For fans of Victoria Purman, Joy Rhoades and anyone who loved The Guernsey Literary Potato Pie Society.

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Sashas debut novel was published in 2015, after which she gave up her copywriting business to pursue her fiction writing career. Sasha is passionate about levelling the playing field for members of the community experiencing disadvantage. She is an Ambassador for the Books in Homes Australia charity which provides books of choice for children in disadvantaged circumstances to keep in their home libraries. Today, she lives and writes in the Perth hills region with her partner and two daughters. A lover of animals, Sasha spends her free time pottering in the garden with her flock of backyard chickens. Sasha is the author of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen (2021) and Caravan like a Canary (2022).