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Author Lohrey, Amanda, author.

Title The conversion / Amanda Lohrey
Published Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2023

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 MELB  827.03 L8337 A6/Co  DUE 10-04-24
Description 249 pages ; 24 cm x 16cm
Summary The conversion was Nick's idea. Nick- so persuasive, ever the optimist, still boyishly handsome. Always on a quest to design the perfect environment, convinced it could heal a wounded soul. The conversion was Nick's idea, but it's Zoe who's here now, in a valley of old coalmines and new vineyards, working out how to live in a deconsecrated church. What to do with all that vertical space, those oppressive stained-glass windows? Can a church become a home or, even with all its vestiges removed, will it remain forever what it was intended to be? For Zoe, alone and troubled by a ghost from the recent past, the little church seems empty of the possibilities Nick enthused about. She is stuck in purgatory-until a determined young teacher pushes her way into Zoe's life, convinced of her own peculiar mission for the building. Melanie has something of Nick's unquenchable zeal about her. And it's clear to Zoe that she won't take no for an answer
Subject Retirees -- Fiction
Moving, Household -- Fiction
Church buildings -- Fiction
Dwellings -- Design and construction -- Fiction
Country life -- Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Teachers -- Fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Australian literature -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781922790484
1922790486