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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 In the Valley of Blue Gums
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'Journalist Thea Anderson's adventurous life has been one of endless danger. Even her childhood, where she and her mother were forced to flee Malaya in the fish–stinking hold of a junk in the dying days of colonialism, was fraught with peril.

'For a time it seemed she would find safe harbour in Tasmania in the arms of wine–maker Peter Torrance, but her restless spirit cannot be contained. Thea's ambition is to travel the world as a foreign correspondent but Peter is dedicated to his family vineyard in a blue gum valley: it seems their love must fail.

'Thea makes her name internationally with her coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy then the escalating war in Vietnam, one of the only women in the field. Her job leads her further into peril and death stalks her all the way, until a return to Tasmania opens the door to a new and exciting career.

'Will this opportunity allow her to become reunited with the man she used to love? Or has that dream vanished, like mist in the valley of blue gums?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Emily Cannon

  • Epigraph:

    That is what history is : threads of darkness and light making a tapestry of the past. - Alan Larkin


    Our past forms our present and our future. - Gautama Buddha

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Mira Books , 2018 .
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      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 21, 2018

      ISBN: 9781489257314, 1489257314

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