Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New Zealand
Paperback. Condition: Good. 218 pages. cover worn Book by Gail Jones. Seller Inventory # 350ag
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Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australia
Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Gail Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This is a story that can only be told in a whisper . In the remote outback of Western Australia during the Second World War, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary- in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. Through this exquisite story of Perdita's troubled childhood, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a brilliance that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels, Dreams of Speaking and Sixty Lights. Secondhand, Paperback. Seller Inventory # 9781741669008-SECONDHAND
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Soft Cover. Condition: F-. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & marked, prev. owner's name to first page); pp. [vi (last blank)], 218. A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 035248
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Seller: Book Merchant Bookstore, Bunbury, WA, Australia
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned. Seller Inventory # 008403
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