Two (2) books by Diane Armstrong
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Overview: Polish-born Diane Armstrong is a child of the Holocaust and arrived in Australia with her parents from Poland in 1948.
At seven years of age she decided to become a writer, and displayed an early passion for telling stories before she was first published in the Australian Women’s Weekly in 1965.
In 1998 she fulfilled her dream of writing a book. She received a grant from Australia Council to write Mosaic, a Chronicle of Five Generations, which was short-listed for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, as well as for the National Biography Award. In 2001 it was published in the United States and Canada by St Martin’s Press, and was selected as one of the year’s best memoirs by Amazon.com. It was published in the UK in 2018.
In 2000 she received her second grant from Australia Council to write The Voyage of Their Life, the Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers, which was published by HarperCollins, and was shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Her first novel Winter Journey was published by HarperCollins in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Literary Award. It has been published in Poland, Israel, and the United States. Her second novel Nocturne, won the Society of Women Writers’ award for Fiction. It was published in the UK and US in 2018. Her novel Empire Day, set in postwar Sydney, was published by HarperCollins in 2011.
Diane lives in Sydney, as do her children, Justine and Jonathan, and her grand-daughters Maya, Sarah, and Allie.
She is a member of the Australian Society of Authors, the Society of Women Writers, and the MEAA.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Nocturne : A Novel 2008
Nocturne is a powerful and inspiring testament to resilience and courage in the face of cruelty and betrayal.
‘She closed her eyes and listened to the forbidden Chopin nocturne . . . . its magic hung in the air.’
It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance.
But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams.
As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers.
In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF.
Forced into the Warsaw Ghetto, Elzunia learns that even children must create their own rules to survive.
When the Ghetto defies the invaders, and later the entire city of Warsaw rises up, Elzunia finds strength in ways she never imagined.
Nocturne is a powerful and inspiring testament to resilience and courage in the face of cruelty and betrayal.
Empire Day : A Novel 2015
From award-winning author Diane Armstrong comes a dramatic and heartwarming novel which brilliantly evokes postwar Sydney.
Empire Day, 1948.
A back street in Bondi is transformed as the fireworks of Cracker Night cast a magical glow over its humble cottages.
But Australia as a whole is being transformed in this postwar era and the people of Wattle Street know that life will never be the same again. the ‘reffos’ have moved in, and their strange ways are threatening the comfortable world of salt-of-the-earth locals like Pop Wilson, deserted mum Kath and sharp-tongued Maude McNulty.
With suspicious and disapproving eyes, the Australians observe their new neighbours – mysterious Mr Emil, fragile young Lilija and all the other Europeans starting their lives afresh.
Mistrust and misunderstandings abound on both sides.
To Hania, an angry teenager struggling to cope with her hysterical mother, and to Sala, an unhappily married woman trying to blot out her traumatic wartime past, the Australians appear enviably carefree.
But behind closed doors, old as well as New Australians suffer secret heartaches.
As the smoke of fires past and present gradually disperses and the lives of the two groups entwine, unexpected relationships form that bring passion and tragedy for some, and forgiveness and resolution for others.
EMPIRE DAY is a dramatic and heart-warming novel.
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