Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Henty Street church is the spiritual home of the story's small community — a plain brick building in the corridor, warm, unpretentious, and comfortable. Evangelical and easygoing, it is the ordinary suburban congregation Hannah has belonged to for nine years, and the fellowship from which the story's faithful are drawn. What such a comfortable church becomes when the easy years end is one of the book's quiet questions.
Cardinia Hospital and Community Health is Hannah's working world — the busy public health service covering…
Mel and Cam's place is the warm, busy heart of the church family — a lived-in weatherboard at the…
The Brandt family home is the domestic heart of the Pergamum story — a suburban house near the capital where…
The Corridor is the world of The Endurance — the outer south-east growth corridor of Melbourne, where new…
The world of The Endurance tightens not through soldiers but through admin — checkpoints and scan-points…
The MCG — "the G" — is the secular cathedral of Melbourne, the great stadium where the whole state gathers on…