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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.

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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 *

The Far Country

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    A Paperback / softback by Nevil Shute

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/09/2009
      ISBN13: 9780099530039, 978-0099530039
      ISBN10: 0099530031

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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 *

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