Bottom board edge has a small dent; dw slightly rubbed; Author, from Australia, is a three-time Booker Prize winner. ; 'Granny Catchprice runs her family business (and her family) with senility, cunning and a handbagful of explosives. Her daughter Cathy would rather be singing County & Western than selling cars, while Benny Catchprice, sixteen and seriously psychopathic, wants to transform a failing auto franchise into an empire -- and himself into an angel. Out of the confrontation between the Catchprices and their unwitting nemesis, a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxa... View More...
Top corner of front free endpaper clipped, spine head and tail lightly bumped. Dust wrapper lightly edgeworn with a few short closed tears. ; A fun story set in pre-WWI Australia. Admirers of L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle will find numerous similarities between the two books. The results of the plagiarism case brought by the heirs of L M Montgomery against this author of The Thorn Birds, have been sealed. ; 'Might be my MOST favorite book of all.'- Suzie S. of the DES email discussion group. View More...
No spine or cover creases, light edgewear and rubbing, pages browning (seen often in this edition) but not brittle; pages clean, none loose. ; A fun story set in pre-WWI Australia of a young woman coming into her own. Admirers of L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle will find numerous similarities between the two books. The results of the plagiarism case brought by the heirs of L M Montgomery against this author of The Thorn Birds, have been sealed.; 'Might be my MOST favorite book of all.'- Suzie S. of the DES email discussion group. Book matches sample image. View More...
Light spine and cover creases, covers edgeworn, tiny hole on back cover, pages age browned but clean; none loose.; Basis for the 1981 television mini-series.; The story of Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, 'who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her...' An interesting article by the author about this book available at http://www.nevilshute.org/at lanotes.php View More...
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