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Nights with Grace
Melbourne
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Heinemann
,
1990
Z48574
1990
single work
novel
'In the summer that she turns seventeen Grace comes to the threshold of a world full of richness and danger, love and loss, innocence and exploitation. That summer Grace spends a lot of time dreaming, watched by her mother, the once beautiful Mara, who has become an acid-tongued, dissolute drunkard, and Porora, the fierce Rarotongan matriarch who runs the Paradise Bar where Grace works.
'Set on a beautiful Pacific Island, Nights with Grace is about first love. It is a fresh, sensual and bitter-sweet story, as evocative as a Gauguin painting.(Publication summary))
Auckland : Reed , 1990 -
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Canoes of the Dead
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
,
1993
Z837520
1993
single work
novel
young adult
'Novel about a lonely Australian boy whose friendship with teenagers from a village in Papua New Guinea leads him on a voyage of self-discovery. This is the author's first novel.' (Publication summary)
South Melbourne : Pearson Education , 2001