Four Fires

Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9781552783917.

The four fires in this story are passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded the Australian people. In a small town like any other small town around australia live the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. The Maloneys are a family you wont a strong mother, a father broken by war, three boys and two girls, one of whom has an illegitimate daughter. Each of their lives is changed forever by the four fires. An unashamed story of the power of love and the triumph of the human spirit against the odds.