Sorry / Gail Jones
- Bib ID:
- 7288065
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jones, Gail, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Penguin Random House Australia, 2014
- ©2014
- 1 online resource (224 pages).
- ISBN:
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- 1742749879 (EPUB)
- 9781742749877 (EPUB)
- Summary:
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This is a story that can only be told in a whisper ... In the remote outback of Western Australia during the Second World War, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. Through this exquisite story of Perdita's troubled childhood, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a brilliance that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels, Dreams of Speaking and Sixty Lights.
- Notes:
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- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Audience: General.
- Vendor-supplied metadata
- Subject:
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- Anthropologists -- Australia -- Fiction
- Children of anthropologists -- Fiction
- Friendship in children -- Fiction
- Parent and child -- Fiction
- Anthropologists
- Children of anthropologists
- Fiction - General
- Friendship in children
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Parent and child
- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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