9 entries in the world of The Endurance.
Cardinia Hospital and Community Health is Hannah's working world — the busy public health service covering the growth corridor, where she nurses the rounds by day and picks up the occasional ward shift alongside her friend Jess. An…
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…
Mel and Cam's place is the warm, busy heart of the church family — a lived-in weatherboard at the unfashionable end of the line, all back-door welcomes, kids underfoot, and a kettle always on. Cam's shed out the back is workshop and…
The Brandt family home is the domestic heart of the Pergamum story — a suburban house near the capital where four generations of one family have lived their faith as both devotion and livelihood. It is where the warmth of a close family…
The Corridor is the world of The Endurance — the outer south-east growth corridor of Melbourne, where new housing estates run out into paddock and bush along the train line. Hannah works its rounds from new-estate Pakenham up to the old…
The world of The Endurance tightens not through soldiers but through admin — checkpoints and scan-points, welfare-check teams in soft polo shirts, the polite language of "support" and "for your safety." The story takes its dread from…
The MCG — "the G" — is the secular cathedral of Melbourne, the great stadium where the whole state gathers on Grand Final day. In The Endurance it becomes the stage on which the new order stages its biggest public moments: the same ground…
The Reid family home in Oakleigh is the warm Greek-Australian heart of the story's family scenes — a narrow brick house up the line from Hannah's patch, full of food, faith, and four decades of family. It is where the older generation's…
Thessaloniki is the setting of the prequel novella The Bread of the Stranger — the great Greek port city, once the heart of Sephardic Jewish Europe, under occupation in 1941–43. It is the ancestral city behind the Reid family and the…