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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Last Reunion
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'Burma, 1945: Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy are five young women in search of adventure. Attached to the Fourteenth Army, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle, they become embroiled in life-threatening battles that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

'Oxford, 1976: At the height of summer, a woman steals several rare Japanese netsuke from the Ashmolean Museum. These tiny, exquisitely detailed carvings are never seen again.

'London and Galway, 1999: Olivia, assistant to an art-dealer, meets with the elderly Beatrix, who wishes to sell her late husband’s collection of Japanese art. Concealing her own motives, Olivia accompanies Beatrix to a party where friendships will be tested as secrets kept for more than fifty years are revealed.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication : For Bettina, Penny, Rhonnie and Sue: for your friendship, your kindness, your strength and your vulnerability.

  • Epigraph :

    'But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

    Then imitate the action of the tiger;

    Stiffen the sinews, summon up blood,

    Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.'

    Henry V, William Shakespeare

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2021 .
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      Extent: 367p.p.
      Reprinted: Jun 2022
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      • Published March 2021
      ISBN: 9780733645389
    • London,
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      Orion ,
      2021 .
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      Extent: 384p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 14 October 2021.
      ISBN: 9781398701144
Form: audiobook
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hachette Australia , 2021 .
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      Extent: 10 hrs and 24 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 31 March 2021
      ISBN: 9780733645679

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  • Dyslexic edition.
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