Author: kristinaolsson

A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia’s history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept … In 1965 as Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s striking vision for the Sydney Opera House transforms the … House transforms the skyline and unleashes a storm of controversy, the shadow of the Vietnam War and a deadly lottery threaten to tear the country apart. Journalist Pearl Keogh, exiled to…