Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
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 Greek suburb of Oakleigh, with the city waiting at the end of the line. Ordinary, sprawling, and quietly beautiful at its edges, it is a landscape whose nearness to the bush will come to matter.
Cardinia Hospital and Community Health is Hannah's working world — the busy public health service covering…
Henty Street church is the spiritual home of the story's small community — a plain brick building in the…
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 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…