Gallipoli Street

Mary-Anne O'Connor

Jan 2026 · Bolinda · Narrated by Rebecca Macauley

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13 hr 48 min

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At 17, Veronica O'Shay is happier running wild on the family farm than behaving in the ladylike manner her mother requires, and she despairs both of her secret passion for her brother's friend Jack Murphy and what promises to be a future of restraint and compliance. But this is 1913 and the genteel tranquillity of rural Beecroft is about to change forever as the O'Shay and Murphy families, along with their friends the Dwyers, are caught up in the theatre of war and their fates become intertwined. From the horrors of Gallipoli to the bloody battles of the Somme, through love lost and found, the Great Depression and the desperate jungle war along the Kokoda Track, this sprawling family drama brings to life a time long past ... a time of desperate love born in desperate times and acts of friendship against impossible odds. A love letter to Australian landscape and character, Gallipoli Street celebrates both mateship and the enduring quality of real love. But more than that, this story shows us where we have come from as a nation, by revealing the adversity and passions that forged us.

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About the author

Mary-Anne O'Connor debuted at #3 on the Australian fiction bestseller lists in 2015 with her breakout novel Gallipoli Street. Since then, she has gone on to produce continuous bestsellers, from her historical fiction novels surrounding Australia's explosive cultural upheaval during the 19th and 20th centuries, to her escapist English Christmas romance novels. Her novels include Gallipoli Street, Worth Fighting For, War Flower, In A Great Southern Land, Where Fortune Lies, Sisters of Freedom, Dressed By Iris, Never to Surrender and The Stowaway. She has also co-written two non-fiction books about art, A Brush with Light and Secrets of the Brush, with her father, well-known Australian traditional artist Kevin Best. O'Connor lives in a house overlooking her beloved bushland in northern Sydney with her husband Anthony and their two sons Jimmy and Jack. Her latest novel, Christmas Joy, came out in 2025.

Rebecca Macauley is an award-winning narrator. She has appeared in various television series, including international hit Neighbours and Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls and the children's television series Wicked Science. Rebecca has previously narrated Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Ursula Dubosarsky's Abyssinia.

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