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The Far Country
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099530039
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

The Far Country

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1 July 2010
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15 Oct 2009
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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.
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099530039
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
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Praise for The Far Country

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