Office of Innocence

Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War II Australia. As Sydney braces itself for a Japanese invasion, Father Frank Darragh finds his pastoral duties becoming increasingly challenging. How should he counsel an AWOL black American soldier who may face death for his involvement with a white woman? And what should he say to another woman — the distressingly beguiling Kate Heggarty — who impresses him with her virtue even as she edges toward sin?

When Kate is found murdered, Darragh falls under suspicion. And even if the police clear him, his superiors — and his own conscience — may not. Office of Innocence is a book that’s impossible to put down, dense with moral complexity and alive with period detail.

• Author
• Thomas Keneally

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• Anchor

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-4000-3095-8

• EAN
• 9781400030958

• Genres
• fiction, australia, religion, war

• Release date
• 2004