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'A newly married couple arrive in Malaya from Britain in 1931, and start a family. Then after ten years, their happy and fulfilling life is suddenly disrupted by the invasion of the Japanese army in 1942. She escapes to Australia with the four children, and he spends the rest of the war in prison. Both of them write about their experiences, in distinctive voices, but with surprisingly similar concerns, considering the enormous differences in their circumstances.
'A deeply personal story of forced separation and reunion, If this should be farewell interweaves the journals and letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, torn asunder by the fall of Singapore during the second World War. From Changi prison to suburban Australia, their lives through the war could not have been more different, yet their love and devotion never wavered.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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[Review] If This Should Be Farewell
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , October no. 19 2003;
— Review of If This Should be Farewell : A Family Separated by War : The Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945 2003 selected work autobiography correspondence diary -
Resolution Was All
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 250 2003; (p. 21-22)
— Review of One Fourteenth of an Elephant : A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway 2003 single work autobiography ; If This Should be Farewell : A Family Separated by War : The Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945 2003 selected work autobiography correspondence diary
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Resolution Was All
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 250 2003; (p. 21-22)
— Review of One Fourteenth of an Elephant : A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway 2003 single work autobiography ; If This Should be Farewell : A Family Separated by War : The Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945 2003 selected work autobiography correspondence diary -
[Review] If This Should Be Farewell
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , October no. 19 2003;
— Review of If This Should be Farewell : A Family Separated by War : The Journal and Letters of Ernest and Mary Hodgkin, 1942-1945 2003 selected work autobiography correspondence diary
- Malaya, Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Changi,
cSingapore,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- Perth, Western Australia,
- 1942-1945