Acres of Heartache

Graham Brammer follows the remarkable success of his first Vietnam-era novel Uncertain Fate with this tale of life in Australia during a decade of social upheaval that was the 1960s. He captures the pressures that the divisions in society create as each faction defends the righteousness of its cause with a diversity of tactics and attitudes. In Acres of Heartache we obtain an insight into a time in Australian history that set family against family and even brother against brother through the war in Vietnam, conscription, moratorium marches and a burgeoning notion of free love.