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The Golden Age by Joan London, a poignant and beautifully crafted novel published in 2014. Set in 1950s Perth, Australia, the story revolves around Frank Gold, a 13-year-old Hungarian-Jewish refugee and polio survivor, who is sent to a children’s convalescent home called The Golden Age. There, he falls in love with Elsa, another young patient, as they bond over poetry, music, and their shared experience of illness and displacement.
London’s prose is luminous and restrained, capturing the resilience of her characters against the backdrop of postwar Australia, where themes of migration, trauma, and the fragility of the body intertwine. The novel explores how illness isolates but also transforms, offering moments of grace and connection.
For fans of: The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman) or All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr).
