Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
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 exactly this: a system that is mundane, reasonable, and unfailingly kind on the surface. This entry gathers the everyday machinery through which the squeeze is felt.
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 Corridor is the world of The Endurance — the outer south-east growth corridor of Melbourne, where new…
The MCG — "the G" — is the secular cathedral of Melbourne, the great stadium where the whole state gathers on…