- Fiction, Women diplomats, Man-woman relationships, Politics and government
It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and fought for the League. Edith Campbell Berry and her now husband Ambrose Westwood are back from one of the oldest cities of the world to live in the newest city of the world - she had moved from trying to make a world capital in Geneva to a dusty town trying to become a national capital.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Frank Moorhouse
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 720
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781742759111
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