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The Absence Of Nectar
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Harper Collins, Australia, 2001
ISBN 10: 0732274001
ISBN 13: 9780732274009
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 305 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harper Collins, Australia, 2001. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Absence of Nectar is a finely wrought story of suspense by the acclaimed author of the House of Gentle Men. Alice is a precocious twelve-year-old growing up in rural texas with one wish on her mind - to get rid of Simon Jester. Simon is the man who saved Alice's mother, Meg, from drowning. Simon is Meg's hero, her saviour - and her new husband. He's a mysterious man whose own family, he says, drowned in a nearby lake. But what really happened? Alice and her brother become convinced that Simon intends to poison them. Meg tells her children they have wild imaginations, until one night she comes to kiss them and instead of her usual endearments, whispers a single word - run. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0732274001. ISBN/EAN: 9780732274009. Inventory No: 22070059. Seller Inventory # 22070059