The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins INTERIOR DESIGN I was swept away by

I was swept away by this triumphant and luminous story' Myfanwy Jones

In the mid-seventies at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne

Jana calls off their joint trip and gets a lift to the festival from her church friend Nathan

) In the years since

‘Fascinating … An eminently enjoyable and engrossing page-turner’ The Jewish Chronicle

The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins INTERIOR DESIGN I was swept away bySet in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his