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In the winter of 1949, Julia Bogle, an 18-year-old English girl who has come with her parents to live in a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, relieves her …
Shirley Hazzard
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In mid-July of 1947, Peter Exley, an Australian on loan to the British Army, was sent to an Asian British colony (perhaps Hong Kong). He lived with another…
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Fiction, from 1979: After their parents are drowned in a capsized ferry, two sisters in Australia move with their half sister, Dora, to a house by the sea.
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The writer probes the private thoughts of various members of the Organization (the U.N.). Leslie, a secretary, is trapped in a dull typing job, remote from…
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Flinders, an agricultural conservationalist, has worked two years in Arabia on a Reforestation Project for the Organization (the U.N., although it is not …
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Clem appeases his wife, May, when she learns of his affair with her young cousin, Nettie. Then he goes to see Nettie. He tells her he sees now that when he…
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Late in the summer there are 4 guests at the pensione of Marina & Daniele near Florence--an elderly English couple, the Fenwick's & a young one, …
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Two American tourists - not yet married - were travelling through Italy. They got off the bus on the Via Tiburtina, near the Villa Adriana. She told him …