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A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when she is called back to England.
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Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0099530031
- ISBN 13 9780099530039
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages248
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