The Youngest Son - John Byrnes

Category: Historical Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: On The Unforgiving Streets Of 1920s Sydney

Written by John Byrnes
Read by Tamblyn Lord
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

10 hours and 35 minutes

Publication date
February 1, 2026

On the unforgiving streets of 1920s Sydney, the Leach family have nothing but each other. Three children of this broken working-class family find adventure, heartache and trouble as over the decades their lives drift apart…

John finds faith and love at a young age. The inevitable clash between the two leads him into a different kind of brotherhood as war clouds gather.

Maureen dreams of a life ‘just like the movies’ and waits to be swept off her feet. Yet at every crossroad, she makes the wrong choice.

Bob discovers a natural talent with his fists and an instinct for trouble. But with every win he earns the hard way, more enemies rise.

The Leach family scrabble for survival both in Sydney’s seedy underbelly – wrestling with police corruption and blood feuds, in brothels and gambling dens – and on battlefields far away.