And in the Morning

Lenny Robinson

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702270284
• Year: 2026

In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home Lily' s husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse in the Middle East. Twenty-three years later, as the same city awaits a Japanese invasion, Frankie, a young servicewoman on a night' s leave, meets an airman, Ed, at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, single mother Fran prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam. And in the Morning is a novel about war and the ways in which its tragedies, both great and small, transform the intimate lives of the mothers, wives and lovers who must live with its consequences.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter 1: 1919
• Chapter 2: 1969
• Chapter 3: 1942
• Chapter 4: 1919
• Chapter 5: 1969
• Chapter 6: 1942
• Chapter 7: 1919
• Chapter 8: 1969
• Chapter 9: 1942
• Chapter 10: 1919
• Chapter 11: 1969
• Chapter 12: 1942
• Chapter 13: 1919
• Chapter 14: 1969
• Chapter 15: 1942
• Chapter 16: 1919
• Chapter 17: 1969
• Chapter 18: 1942
• Chapter 19: 1919
• Chapter 20: 1969
• Chapter 21: 1942
• Chapter 22: 1919
• Chapter 23: 1969
• Chapter 24: 1919
• Chapter 25: 1942
• Chapter 26: 1969
• Chapter 27: 1919
• Chapter 28: 1942
• Acknowledgements
• UQP Quentin Bryce Award 2026
• Imprint Page