The Everlasting Sunday

During the freezing English winter of 1962, seventeen-year-old Radford is sent to Goodwin Manor, a home for boys who have been ‘found by trouble’. Drawn immediately to the charismatic West, Radford soon discovers that each one of them has something to hide.

Life at the Manor offers only a volatile refuge, and unexpected arrivals threaten the world the boys have built. Will their friendship be enough when trouble finds them again?

At once both beautiful and brutal, The Everlasting Sunday is a haunting debut novel about growing up, growing wild and what it takes to survive.

IN THE MEDIA:

"Striking. Lukins' great achievement is to have created an atmosphere that is at once very much of this world, and musical and timeless. Everlasting indeed." MICHELLE DE KRETSER, Miles Franklin winning author of The Life to Come.

"Robert Lukins' powerful, assured writing cuts like a knife into a world cracking with secrets and tension." LUCY TRELOAR, author of 'THE TIMES Book of the Year' Salt Creek.

"Extraordinary ... The Everlasting Sunday is a beautifully written, subtle novel, dealing with loss, forgiveness, love, redemption and the complexity of our natures." JOHN PURCELL, Booktopia.

"Lukins achieves something delicate and spare ..." PETER KENNEALLY, The Sydney Morning Herald.

"Both savage and tender, The Everlasting Sunday, is a haunting debut novel." Better Reading.

"Lukins richly evokes the hermetic world." SH, The Saturday Paper.

"Balletic ... often quiet, but bursts out vividly." RONNIE SCOTT, The Australian.

"Each sentence lingers on a moment, suspending action like frost creeping through a body of water." ELLEN CREGAN, Kill Your Darlings.

"A rare sense of foreboding and impending catastrophe ... a compelling début." ANNA MACDONALD, The Australian Book Review.