- Fiction, Political refugees, British, Travel
When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with Carl, a Czech refugee who was a doctor in his own land and now works as a lumberjack. They are brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, but their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- First published
- November 1989
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- W. Heinemann, william heinemann ltd., Book Club
- Editions
- 71
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780434699148
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