"It is vivid and convincing, its voice utterly authentic…And for all its record of distress it is written with love. I felt that the writer had to write it. Which is probably the most important thing you can say about any book." ALEX MILLER, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award Set in Sydney and Melbourne between 1932 and 1955, Divided Houses depicts the doomed relationship of Eddie and Vivien, two people whose lives have already been affected by the Great Depression and its aftermath....