The Widow and Her Hero

The Widow and Her Hero
First edition
Author	Thomas Keneally
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publisher	Doubleday, Australia
Publication date	2007
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	297 pp
ISBN	1-86471-101-9
OCLC	156638789
Preceded by	The Tyrant's Novel

The Widow and Her Hero is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally set in Australia during World War II.

Notes

Dedication: "To the Coverdales - Alex, Rory, Craig, Margaret. With the Author's love."

Awards and nominations

Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: longlisted
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: shortlisted
Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction, 2008: shortlisted

Interviews

"ABC Radio National The Book Show"

Reviews

The Age
The Australian
The Courier-Mail
The Guardian
Sydney Morning Herald
The Telegraph

References

Works by Thomas Keneally

Novels	The Place at Whitton (1964) The Fear (1965) Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968) The Survivor (1969) A Dutiful Daughter (1971) The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972) Blood Red, Sister Rose (1974) Gossip from the Forest (1975) Season in Purgatory (1976) A Victim of the Aurora (1978) Passenger (1979) Confederates (1979) The Cut-Rate Kingdom (1980) Schindler's Ark (1982) A Family Madness (1985) The Playmaker (1987) Act of Grace (1985) By the Line (1989) Towards Asmara (1989) Flying Hero Class (1991) Chief of Staff (1991) Woman of the Inner Sea (1993) Jacko: The Great Intruder (1993) A River Town (1995) Bettany's Book (2000) An Angel in Australia (2000) The Tyrant's Novel (2003) The Widow and Her Hero (2007) The People's Train (2009) The Daughters of Mars (2012) Shame and the Captives (2014)

Non-fiction	Moses the Law-Giver (1975) Outback (1983) Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime (1987) The Place Where Souls are Born: A Journey to the Southwest (1992) Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and the Irish (1992) Memoirs from a Young Republic (1993) The Utility Player: The Des Hasler Story (1993) Our Republic (1995) Homebush Boy: A Memoir (1995) The Great Shame (1998) American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles' (2002) Lincoln (2003) A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia (2005) Searching for Schindler: A Memoir (2007) Australians: Origins to Eureka (2009) Three Famines: Starvation and Politics (2011) Australians: Eureka to the Diggers (2011) Australians: Flappers to Vietnam (2014)

Juvenile fiction	Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees (1978)

Drama	Halloran's Little Boat (1968) Childermas (1968) An Awful Rose (1972) Bullie's House (1981)