- Bib ID:
- 8662844
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Nunn, Kayte, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2022
- ©2021
- xiv, 367 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780733648168 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Five women come together at a New Year's Eve party after decades apart, in this thrilling story of desire, revenge and courage. Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy: in search of adventure, attached to the Fourteenth Army, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle. Oxford, 1976. A woman slips into a museum and steals several rare Japanese netsuke. Despite the offer of a considerable reward, these tiny, exquisitely detailed carvings are never seen again. London and Galway, 1999. On the eve of the new millennium, Olivia, assistant to an art dealer, meets Beatrix, an elderly widow who wishes to sell her late husband's collection of Japanese art. Olivia travels with Beatrix to a New Year's Eve party, deep in the Irish countryside, where friendships will be tested as secrets kept for more than fifty years are spilled.
- Notes:
- "War would bring them together but would it ultimately tear them apart?"--Cover.
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