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"Impulsive, idealistic and restless, Emily Stanton finds herself, with university behind her, on the threshold of life. When she is introduced to a Scottish engineer whose life in France offers the exotic, she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife, and to find a world of Parisian colour.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and character-led.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Miller, Alex
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 370
- Publisher
- Berkley Books, Scribner
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780684869353
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