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The Far Country
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Ideal for readers who enjoy dramatic romance set against adventurous and rugged backdrops, particularly fans of Australian outback tales and emotive character-driven stories.
A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
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A dramatic romance set in the remote wilds of the Australian outback.
A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.
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Evening Standard calls it an "enjoyable story of love blossoming over the scalpels." The Boston Herald praises it as a "heartlifting novel by a master-weaver of romance and adventure," while The Times' Sue Townshed expresses a longing for Shute's faithful and enduring characters.
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ISBN: 9780099530039
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 187g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Nevil Shute 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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