{"id":2363,"date":"2018-01-27T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-02-07T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T02:10:37","slug":"new-release-the-day-they-shot-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-release-the-day-they-shot-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: The Day They Shot Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover of the book<\/p><\/div>\n

Wendy Scarfe’s second novel,\u00a0The Day They Shot Edward<\/em><\/a>, tells a tale of a family in turmoil, set against the political mess of the First World War. Told from the perspective of a nine-year-old Matthew,\u00a0the narration has an air of innocence, making the horrors of what is to come all the more confronting.<\/p>\n

About the book:<\/h5>\n

It is 1916. The Australian community is riven over a referendum to\u00a0conscript more troops for the killing fields of Europe. Nine-year-old\u00a0Matthew\u2019s family, divided politically and sinking into poverty,\u00a0reflects the social conflict. Handsome, generous Edward is at the\u00a0centre of the family friction. Gran hates the war as Edward does,\u00a0Mother flirts with him to escape the misery of her marriage, and\u00a0young Matthew adores him.<\/p>\n

As patriotic frenzy takes hold, police informers spy on Edward and\u00a0track his anti-conscription activities. Sabotage and anarchism are\u00a0meaningless words to Matthew. Absorbed in childhood fantasies, he\u00a0is unaware that he too is helping draw the net around Edward. It is\u00a0left to Matthew\u2019s German headmaster to teach him that, like music,\u00a0people grow with love.<\/p>\n

Praise for\u00a0The Day They Shot Edward:<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Day They Shot Edward <\/i>is a beautiful and compassionate story.\u00a0The deep sense of mystery and heightened awareness of emotion,\u00a0which are the spiritual gifts of the child, become lenses for\u00a0examining fundamental issues of life, death, peace, and what it\u00a0means to love.\u2019 \u2013 Di Bretherton<\/p>\n

Praise for Wendy Scarfe\u2019s Hunger Town:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018A powerful evocation of an era which is soon to lose the last of its\u00a0witnesses \u2026 trust me, it is a compelling page-turner; it\u2019s riveting\u00a0reading.\u2019 \u2013 Lisa Hill, ANZ Litlovers<\/i><\/p>\n

The Day They Shot Edward<\/em> is being launched at Brightbird Espresso in Warrnambool on Tuesday 13 February. For more information, visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both\u00a0The Day They Shot Edward\u00a0<\/a><\/em>and\u00a0Hunger Town<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>are available for purchase online, or at our bookshop in Mile End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wendy Scarfe’s second novel,\u00a0The Day They Shot Edward, tells a tale of a family in turmoil, set against the political mess of the First World War. Told from the perspective of a nine-year-old Matthew,\u00a0the narration has an air of innocence, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,160,5,757,331,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adelaide","category-bestsellers","category-wordpress-defaults","category-history","category-reading","category-we-love-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-C7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}