The Far Country

Nevil Shute author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Sep '09

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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.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, 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.

Enjoyable story of love blossoming over the scalpels * Evening Standard *
A heartlifting novel by a master-weaver of romance and adventure * Boston Herald *
Nevil Shute made me yearn for a faithful, plodding, Shute-type of man. I imagined us trekking across the Australian outback, finding a run-down hamlet, and then transforming it together until death or flood parted us -- Sue Townshed * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099530039

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm

Weight: 181g

256 pages