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Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again, especially not Pearl. A love story begins to unfold against the blacked-out nights and rumour-filled days of a city in the grip of war. But public events are closing in on Pearl's private world. When James is shipped out to fight in New Guinea, she hatches a breathtaking plan to reunite with him. And then all hell breaks loose. Moving, tender and audaciously original, Love in the Years of Lunacy is a love story with a haunting jazz soundtrack and a war story like no other.

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Emma writes: Love in the Years of Lunacy is about Pearl, a naive but feisty 18-year-old, who is in love with James, a black American GI. They are passionate saxophone players who fall in love over steamy jazz in wartime Sydney. However James is soon shipped off to New Guinea and Pearl can't stand life without him. Her journey is testament to her undying love for James and her reckless spirit. The book is cleverly structured, and thoroughly captivating - I read it in two sittings. This is a rich new Australian novel you shouldn't miss.

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Mandy Sayer won the Australian-Vogel Award in 1989 for her novel Mood Indigo. She has written five works of fiction, edited one anthology (with another due for publication later this year), and written two memoirs, Dreamtime Alice, which won the 2000 National Biography Award and Velocity, which won the Age Non-Fiction Prize. She lives in Sydney.

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