A Great Hope
Picador, $32.99 pb, 406 pp
Fiction
Party people
Fictionalising Labor’s years of hope
Jessica Stanley (photograph via Pan Macmillan Australia)
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen,’ Vladimir Lenin has been credited with saying, with reference to the Bolshevik Revolution. It’s a sentiment that immediately springs to mind when reading Jessica Stanley’s A Great Hope, a début that, while not billed as historical fiction, is deeply concerned with history and its making.
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