The Bread with Seven Crusts

512 pages. light wear, faded spine, tanned edges'In this wise, compassionate novel.temby explores the antagonisms, the collision s of culture, and the events that transform' - Glenda Adams. In the autumn of 19 43 Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian prisoner of war, is dropped into a small rural ou tpost on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt. He has never seen a place so colourless and flat. He has never met anyone like Max Nash, the young and strug gling owner of the farm. the Nashes slowly accept Giuseppe - or Joe, as they cal l him - into their home, but he discovers there are limits. Max's sister, Eddy, back from nursing Australian soldiers overseas, bitterly resents 'the enemy' eat ing at her family's table. the enforced isolation and intimacy of the farm gradu ally push Eddy and Giuseppe into an uneasy truce. As the months pass Giuseppe's feelings for the prickly young woman grow stronger, bringing him into conflict w ith not only the family and the community, but also with Hal, a neighbour and fa mily friend.…