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The Limestone Road

by Nicole Alexander

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Narrator Darius Williams

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Length 12 hours 31 minutes

Language English

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In the summer of 1944 returning soldiers Canning Christie and his father Michael arrive in South Australia from the desert sands of North Africa.

Canning carries the trauma of war and a fractured memory of a terrible event, while charismatic Michael resumes his womanising ways, intent on concealing his own secret wound.

Inexplicably drawn to a vineyard on their land, Canning dreams of producing his own wine. And a chance meeting with Grace Huntley, daughter of the local landowner, offers him hope for that future.

But dormant memories keep rising up: his childhood with his mother, the years traversing the interior with his father and his time at the front.

Soon, viniculture becomes an obsession - one he suspects lies in a hazy recollection of a night in battle. To move forward Canning must reconcile the past, even if that means working with Italian POWs and accepting help from an immigrant German . . .

. . . And ultimately taking a stand against his own father, whose increasingly reckless behaviour is threatening to destroy their new life.

'Unputdownable . epitomising the great Australian novel.' Anita Heiss on Nicole's previous novel The Last Station

Fiction Historical Fiction

Nicole Alexander (Author)
Nicole Alexander has a Master of letters in Creative Writing and her novels, poetry, travel, writing and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America, Singapore, New Zealand, Germany, Ukraine and Canada.

She is the author of eleven novels: The Bark Cutters, A Changing Land, Absolution Creek, Sunset Ridge, The Great Plains, Wild Lands, River Run, An Uncommon Woman, Stone Country, The Cedar Tree and The Last Station. Nicole lives in north-west NSW.

Darius Williams (Reader)
Darius Williams will next be seen in the feature film, TRANSFUSION directed by Matt Nable. He made his feature film debut in the lead role of DINOSAUR ISLAND in 2014, followed by MY PET DINOSAUR. He has also appeared in Channel Seven's HOME & AWAY.

He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2020. While at WAAPA, he performed as Hamlet in HAMLET, Lopakhin in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, and Eli in NEW VOICE: ELI. Upon graduating he was cast as Anthony in I AND YOU for Theatre 180. Darius made his debut in theatre as part of ATYP's The Voices Project, performing the monologue TEETH, IN ALL GOOD THINGS directed by Iain Sinclair in early 2016.