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20 lucky winners will receive a copy of We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow valued at $29.99 each.

WIN 1 of 20 copies of the novel We That Are Left by Lisa Bigelow, thanks to Allen & Unwin.

A moving debut novel about love and war, and the terrifyingly thin line between happiness and tragedy.

Melbourne, 1941. Headstrong young Mae meets and falls head over heels in love with Harry Parker, a dashing naval engineer. After a whirlwind courtship they marry and Mae is heavily pregnant when she hears that Harry has just received his dream posting to HMAS Sydney. Just after Mae becomes a mother, she learns Harry’s ship is missing.

Meanwhile, Grace Fowler is battling prejudice to become a reporter on the afternoon daily newspaper, The Tribune, while waiting for word on whether her journalist boyfriend Phil Taylor, captured during the fall of Singapore, is still alive.

Surrounded by their friends and families, Mae and Grace struggle to keep hope alive in the face of hardship and despair. Then Mae’s neighbour and Grace’s boss Sam Barton tells Mae about a rumour that the Japanese have towed the damaged ship to Singapore and taken the crew prisoner. Mae’s life is changed forever as she focuses her efforts on willing her husband home.

Winners for this competition

1. M. WalkerNSW
2. C. HarrisonQLD
3. K. BennettSA
4. T. BurrowsQLD
5. B. JellyNSW
6. A. McArthurVIC
7. J. RyanNSW
8. L. NanottiSA
9. M. CarrollNSW
10. W. CarolSA
11. J. HaydenNSW
12. N. MarshallVIC
13. A. ThomsonNSW
14. D. HERRMANNVIC
15. R. PreetyWA
16. H. Bruce-GordonSA
17. E. StretenQLD
18. V. LynchTAS
19. J. MundayNSW
20. K. HenriksenNSW
21. S. PangVIC