Last Summer of the Men Shortage - Hardcover

Halls, Geraldine.:

9780094610309: Last Summer of the Men Shortage

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0094610304 ISBN 13: 9780094610309

Publisher: Constable 1976., 1976

Men were hard to come by in the summer of 1945, and those that Dinah does find are stolen by Claudia with appalling regularity. Dinah and Claudia are Adelaide girls, spreading their wings in the wide wicked world of cosmopolitan Sydney. Claudia is in love with Andrew who has a wife, a friend called Mike and a taste for cruelty. The victim of his sadistic irony is Dinah, who cannot understand why he is so anxious to find her a man. The reason, it transpires, is a practical one ...

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Claudia regularly steals Dinah's men, who are hard enough to come by in Sydney in 1945. Claudia is in love with Andrew, who has a wife, a "way of life" and a taste for cruelty. Dinah is the victim of his sadistic irony and she cannot understand why he is so anxious to find her a man.

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