Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living - Hardcover
A tale set at the beginning of World War II finds independent young Jean Finnegan embarking on a scientific life in Australia at the side of agricultural expert Robert Pettergree, with whom she shares a passionate marriage that is marked by such characters as a prim "women's subjects" expert and a Japanese chicken sexer. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.
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"This thoughtful novel thoroughly deserved its place on the Orange Prize shortlist." -- Observer
"Touches of gentle comedy are outweighed by sadness and irony in a novel full of understated tragedy." -- Sunday Telegraph
'It flowers into the personal journey of the appealing young woman
narrator, by turns serious, touching, funny.' -- Guardian
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"Touches of gentle comedy are outweighed by sadness and irony in a novel full of understated tragedy." -- Sunday Telegraph
'It flowers into the personal journey of the appealing young woman
narrator, by turns serious, touching, funny.' -- Guardian
Shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0743286375
- ISBN 13 9780743286374
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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