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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Summer Lightning
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This novel begins in late nineteenth-century Ireland and incorporates the trials and dramas of several generations of a family. The main action revolves around the seventy-fifth birthday celebrations of the family's matriarch who lives on an Australian outback station, and the drama of a stolen inheritance.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Piatkus ,
      2003 .
      Extent: 328p.
      ISBN: 0749933909 (pbk), 0749906316 (hbk)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Piatkus ,
      2003 .
      Extent: 328p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For Brandon John Morris, the first of the next generation.
      • Epigraph: The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known/ For a man by nothing is so well betrayed - Edmund Spenser 1552-1599
      ISBN: 0749933755 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Das Versprechen des Opals : Roman
Language: German

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording, large print.
Last amended 1 Jul 2021 11:06:35
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    Ireland,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • c
    Australia,
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  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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