Nine Days Author:Toni Jordan One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak.It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business?your own and everyone else's?as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life.A... more »mbitious in scope and structure, triumphantly realised, this is a novel about one family and every family. It is about dreams and fights and sacrifices. And finally, of course, it is?as it must be?about love.« less