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Author: John Byrnes
Format: Brand new Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781761268199
Release Date: July 2025
Sydney’s rough streets, the girl next door, a father fresh out of prison, and the kind of revenge that crosses oceans and decades. Sins of the Fathers is an epic Australian saga of brothers bound by blood and broken dreams, set against the mud of Gallipoli, the dust of Lightning Ridge and the shadows of Sydney’s back streets.
• Family secrets, revenge, historical saga
• Early 20th century Sydney, Gallipoli, Lightning Ridge
• Gritty, sweeping, dramatic
• Big, bold, multi-generational storytelling
• One act of violence ripples through three families and two wars
• Perfect for fans of Bryce Courtenay and Peter Watt
Reader note: If you like your Aussie historical fiction sprawling and hard-hitting, you’ll sink your teeth into this one.
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Blurb
Blurb
The brothers, the girl next door, a score to settle.
In the early years of the twentieth century, Billy and Tommy Smith are growing up on the mean streets of Sydney's Millers Point. It's a hungry, hard-scrabble life, made even worse when their violent father returns home from a long stint in prison.
The girl next door, Angeline Dubois, is an ambitious young woman running a small boarding house down at The Point. Circumstances beyond her control threaten to derail her big dreams for the future.
In the wealthy eastern suburbs, Charles Davies is living an entirely different life, the beneficiary of his father's business acumen and insatiable, unyielding greed. Charles wants for nothing - except perhaps his father's approval.
When an incident on The Point leads to the deaths of both Charles' and the Smith boys' fathers, a hatred is born that will follow the three men through their lives. In an epic saga taking them from Sydney to Gallipoli and the killing fields of France in World War I, to the melting pot of Darwin and the opal fields at Lightning Ridge, the men's paths all lead to one final destination: revenge.
But in the end, what price must be paid for the sins of the fathers?
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