The Daughters of Mars

The Daughters of Mars

Author	Tom Keneally
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publisher	Vintage, Australia
Publication date	2012
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	592
ISBN	9781864712254
Preceded by	The People's Train
Followed by	Shame and the Captives

The Daughters of Mars is a 2012 novel by Australian novelist Tom Keneally.

Plot summary

Sally and Naomi Durance are two nurses from country New South Wales who are shipped to Egypt during World War I end up on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes, stationed in the Dardanelles. The novel follows the sisters through that campaign and on to northern Europe.

Notes

Dedication:

To the two nurses,
Judith and Jane

Reviews

The Guardian^[1]
The Sydney Morning Herald^[2]
The Telegraph^[3]

Awards and nominations

2012 winner Colin Roderick Award
2013 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2013 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2013 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2014 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

References

Novels by Thomas Keneally

The Place at Whitton (1964)
The Fear (1965)
Bring Larks and Heroes (1967)
Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968)
The Survivor (1969)
A Dutiful Daughter (1971)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972)
Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974)
Gossip from the Forest (1975)
Season in Purgatory (1976)
A Victim of the Aurora (1978)
Passenger (1979)
Confederates (1979)
The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980)
Schindler's Ark (1982)
A Family Madness (1985)
The Playmaker (1987)
Act of Grace (1985)
By the Line (1989)
Towards Asmara (1989)
Flying Hero Class (1991)
Chief of Staff (1991)
Woman of the Inner Sea (1993)
Jacko: The Great Intruder (1993)
A River Town (1995)
Bettany's Book (2000)
An Angel in Australia (2000)
The Tyrant's Novel (2003)
The Widow and Her Hero (2007)
The People's Train (2009)
The Daughters of Mars (2012)
Shame and the Captives (2014)
Napoleon's Last island (2015)

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