“ Fearless, graceful and deeply benevolent ”
Helen Garner
“ London is my favourite Australian writer; her prose is matchless in its precision, beauty and clear-eyed compassion ”
Charlotte Wood
“ A brilliant display of life and change: the transition between war and peace, between love and permission, between terrible paralysis of various kinds and movement ”
Brenda Walker, The Monthly
“ London’s novels seem to float, unsupported . . . The Golden Age is nevertheless a book that carries the quiet assurance of a classic, which it will most certainly become ”
Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sydney Review of Books
“ Joan London is a superlative writer. The Golden Age, her latest novel, is set in Perth during the polio epidemic. It’s pitch perfect and word perfect. And in writing about children and illness London pays young people the respect of giving them total composure and self-hood ”
Sophie Cunningham, Australian
“ [London] has already proven in novels such as Gilgamesh and The Good Parents to be our finest living writer of marriage and family life. The Golden Age burnishes these credentials: it is her most accomplished and keenly felt work to date. Every other book I read this year will seem loud and blatant beside it ”
Geordie Williamson, Australian
“ Everything [Joan London] writes is pitch perfect and so richly yet modestly insightful that it illuminates the everyday for the reader long after each book has been finished and laid reluctantly aside ”
Adelaide Advertiser
“ London is not prolific (this is her third novel) but what she does produce is exquisite ”
Susan Johnson, Courier-Mail
Paperback
9780143790266
March 19, 2018
Penguin
256 pages
Trade Paperback
9781741666441
August 1, 2014
Vintage Australia
256 pages
EBook
9780857981547
August 1, 2014
RHA eBooks Adult
256 pages
