TY - SOUND AU - Jones,Gail AU - Nabout,Nicole TI - Salonika burning SN - 9781038673305 PY - 2024///] CY - Tullamarine, Victoria PB - Bolinda Audio KW - Franklin, Miles, KW - King, Olive, KW - Pailthorpe, Grace, KW - Spencer, Stanley, KW - Disasters KW - Greece KW - Thessalonikē KW - Fiction KW - Great Fire, Thessalonikē, Greece, 1917 KW - Interpersonal relations KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Macedonia KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Thessalonikē (Greece) KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction KW - War fiction N1 - Read by Nicole Nabout N2 - Macedonia, 1917. The great city of Salonika is engulfed by fire as all of Europe is ravaged by war. Amid the destruction are those who have come to the frontlines to heal - surgeons, ambulance drivers, nurses, orderlies and other volunteers. Four of them - Stella, Olive, Grace and Stanley - are at the centre of Gail Jones's extraordinary new novel, which takes its inspiration from the wartime experiences of Australians Miles Franklin and Olive King, and British painters Grace Pailthorpe and Stanley Spencer. In Jones's imagination these four lives intertwine and change, each compelled by the desire to create something meaningful in the ruins of a broken world ER -