And in the Morning by Lenny Robinson

The moving story of three Australian women across three wars and the damage done to the men they love.

In the winter of 1919, Lily and her three-year-old son, Ted, rush through the streets of Melbourne to welcome home Lily’s husband, Bert, who has spent the last four years fighting with the Light Horse in the Middle East. Twenty-three years later, as the same city awaits a Japanese invasion, Frankie, a young WAAAF on a night’s leave from the service, meets an airman, Ed, at a dance. Almost three decades on, as Melbourne convulses with anti-war protests, a single mother, Fran, prepares a funeral for her only son, a young conscript killed in Vietnam.

And in the Morning is a novel about war and the ways in which its tragedies, both great and small, transform the intimate lives of the mothers, wives and lovers who must live with its consequences.

About the Author: Lenny Robinson has worked as a tutor, university lecturer, freelance writer and teacher. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in Overland, Westerly, Island and Best Australian Essays. She is the author of This Moral Pandemonium, a short biography of notorious 19th-century figure Madame Brussels, as well as a novel, And in the Morning. Lenny Robinson lives with her partner and two children in Naarm, Victoria.

04 Aug 2026
 

And in the Morning by Lenny Robinson ISBN 9780702268847