A calm new order settles over the world, and almost everyone is relieved. Seven ordinary people in seven countries live that settling — each learning, too late or just in time, to tell the true light from the one that is almost the same.
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Cam is Mel's husband — an electrician in his late thirties, big, steady, and gentle, the practical backbone of the church community. He reads the…
Eleni Reid is Hannah's mother — a warm, formidable Greek-Australian matriarch and the engine of the Oakleigh family home. Devout in the ritual…
Hannah Reid is the heart of The Endurance — a thirty-one-year-old community nurse working the growth corridor on Melbourne's south-eastern edge…
Jess is Hannah's closest friend and fellow community nurse — twelve years on the rounds together, fast, funny, sharp, and cheerfully unreligious. She…
Josh Calder is Hannah's fiancé — a tall, warm, easy-to-like New Zealander who works on the national identity-and-payments rollout reshaping how the…
Mel is the warm centre of Hannah's church family — about thirty-five, married to Cam, mother of two small children, and the woman who first taught…
Yiayia Despina is Hannah's grandmother — a Greek widow of around ninety, tiny and frail in body but undimmed in mind. She lived through the…
Margaret is an elderly widow of the Henty Street congregation — small, soft-spoken, and easy to overlook, with a quiet, settled steel beneath. She…
Nick Reid is Hannah's older brother — sharp, self-assured, and modern, the family's pragmatist who has always believed in going along to get along. A…
Pastor Dave Brooke has shepherded the Henty Street congregation for eleven years — a warm, comfortable, outreach-minded minister loved for keeping…
Peter Reid is Hannah's father — a lean, quiet Anglo-Australian who married into the Reid family's Greek world four decades ago and has been its calm…
Priya is Josh's coordinator on the rollout programme — bright, decent, and apologetic, the warm human texture of the office building the new system…
Reg Connolly is Hannah's first patient on the community round — a fiercely independent eighty-one-year-old in the last fibro house on a road the…
Sophie Reid is Hannah's younger sister — twenty-three, the quiet "baby" of the family, watchful and still working out who she is. She observes far…
Cardinia Hospital and Community Health is Hannah's working world — the busy public health service covering the growth corridor, where she nurses the…
Henty Street church is the spiritual home of the story's small community — a plain brick building in the corridor, warm, unpretentious, and…
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…
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…
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…
The world of The Endurance tightens not through soldiers but through admin — checkpoints and scan-points, welfare-check teams in soft polo shirts…
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…
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…
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…
Assure is the national identity-and-payments credential at the centre of the story's near-future world — the app you carry and the green "Verified"…
NIPA — the National Identity & Payments Authority — is the government body that merged the country's identity and payments systems into a single…
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