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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Burnt Sunshine
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'Sydney, 1930, and Greta Osborne is a burgeoning stage star on the verge of joining the famous Palace Theatre in New York. But meeting British naval officer Andrew Flight at a New Year's Eve party changes everything. Falling in love at first sight, Greta waives aside any thoughts of sailing to New York and Andrew jumps ship. The pair flee to the tobacco town of Yunnabilla in Far North Queensland, where their relationship is viewed by the locals with pursed lips and raised eyebrows. The Great Depression brings added hardships, and circumstances push the couple further north to a remote island in Papua New Guinea where they face unexpected challenges. Burnt Sunshine is a heart-warming and very colourful novel about two people in love who take a big chance. In spite of a world depression, a near-tragic setback, disappointments, bad times that can turn into good times, together the pair manage to laugh and love and beat the odds.' Source: www.penguin.co.nz (Sighted 23/08/2008).

Notes

  • Dedication: To my darlings, Stephen, Genevieve and the girls: Amy, Nicole and Bethany; Emma, Brendan and the little ones, Edan and Niah.
  • Epigraph:

    Good Lord above

    Send down a dove

    With wings as sharp as razors

    To cut off the lugs

    Of the wicked mugs

    Who slash the poor man's tongue

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2008 .
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      Extent: 453p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 7 January 2008
      ISBN: 9780670071968 (pbk.)

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Works about this Work

Books Fiction Brooke Jacobson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 February 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of Burnt Sunshine Estelle Pinney , 2008 single work novel
Lifelines Colour Tale of Illicit Love Nadine Williams , 2008 single work biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2008; (p. 13)
ArtsBooks Phil Brown , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 23 - 29 January no. 669 2008; (p. 29)

— Review of Burnt Sunshine Estelle Pinney , 2008 single work novel ; The Secret Lives of Backpackers : Following the Backpackers Trail from Bondi to Cairns Barry Divola , 2008 single work prose
ArtsBooks Phil Brown , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 23 - 29 January no. 669 2008; (p. 29)

— Review of Burnt Sunshine Estelle Pinney , 2008 single work novel ; The Secret Lives of Backpackers : Following the Backpackers Trail from Bondi to Cairns Barry Divola , 2008 single work prose
Books Fiction Brooke Jacobson , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 February 2008; (p. 22)

— Review of Burnt Sunshine Estelle Pinney , 2008 single work novel
Lifelines Colour Tale of Illicit Love Nadine Williams , 2008 single work biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2008; (p. 13)
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