![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not sure if that was supposed to be the message, but it rang loud and clear all the same. Good things also come to people who have plenty of money. Good things can come from horror, or at least this book would have you think. It was during this time that she witnessed something truly horrific, which changed her life.įrom Malaysia, to England, to the outback of Australia – this is a love story at its heart. Each Japanese commander they came across, too busy to really care, turned them away. She and a band of women and children were forced to walk hundreds of miles across Malaysia in search of a prison camp. It begins with probably the longest flashback I’ve ever come across in a book, as he recounts what occurred to her while she was a prisoner of war in the ‘East’. ![]() His story describes the life of his client, a Miss Jean Paget, between the years of her twenties until her early thirties. It has an old-fashioned tone, narrated by a lawyer named Mr Strachan, an old man and widower who appears to have plenty of time on his hands. It was first published in 1950, and is set in that post-war period. With one of them she included this article about Jane Austen – not sure what the relation was. In her eagerness for me tor me to read it, my grandmother actually sent me two copies of the book. ![]()
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