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Is part of
Jingera Trilogy
2010
series - author
novel
(number
3
in series)
Issue Details:
First known date:
2012...
2012
A Distant Land
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'Back in 1957, nine-year-old Zidra Vincent met Jim Cadwallader for the first time. Fourteen years later, their bond of friendship - forged during a childhood in the beautiful coastal town of Jingera - is still strong. But is friendship all they dream of?
'Jim is now a respected war correspondent in Cambodia, though he has plans to come home for good. Because there is something very important he wants to say to Zidra.
'Zidra, meanwhile, is an ambitious reporter at the Sydney Morning Chronicle, and the seeds of a major story have just landed in her lap. Life is looking good, if only she could share it with the man who knows her best.
'Then, while at work in the newsroom one morning, Zidra catches sight of a wire-service bulletin. A story out of Cambodia. The body of a Western journalist has been discovered near Phnom Penh.
'And her world collapses around her ...' (From the publisher's website.)
'Jim is now a respected war correspondent in Cambodia, though he has plans to come home for good. Because there is something very important he wants to say to Zidra.
'Zidra, meanwhile, is an ambitious reporter at the Sydney Morning Chronicle, and the seeds of a major story have just landed in her lap. Life is looking good, if only she could share it with the man who knows her best.
'Then, while at work in the newsroom one morning, Zidra catches sight of a wire-service bulletin. A story out of Cambodia. The body of a Western journalist has been discovered near Phnom Penh.
'And her world collapses around her ...' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Book launched in Canberra by Dr Don Russell at the Bookshop, National Library of Australia, 20 June 2012.
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Epigraph:
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.
T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton'
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Dedication: For my family and in memory of PR.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
Works about this Work
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Review of A Distant Land
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of A Distant Land 2012 single work novel -
Broader Horizons
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 June 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of A Distant Land 2012 single work novel
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Broader Horizons
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 June 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of A Distant Land 2012 single work novel -
Review of A Distant Land
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 June 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of A Distant Land 2012 single work novel
Last amended 13 Oct 2021 14:59:30
Settings:
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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cCambodia,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1971
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