The Last Reunion
by Kayte Nunn
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Burma, 1945: Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy: five young women in search of adventure, attached to the Fourteenth Army, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle. Assigned to run a mobile canteen, navigating treacherous roads and dodging hostile gunfire, they become embroiled in life-threatening battles of their own. Battles that will haunt the women for the rest of their lives.
Oxford, 1976: At the height of an impossibly hot English summer, a woman slips into the Ashmolean Museum and steals several rare Japanese netsuke, including the famed fox-girl. Despite the offer of a considerable reward, these tiny, exquisitely detailed carvings are never seen again.
London and Galway, 1999: On the eve of the new millennium, Olivia, assistant to a London-based art dealer, travels to meet Beatrix, an elderly widow who wishes to sell her late husband's collection of Japanese art. Concealing her own motives, Olivia travels with Beatrix to a New Year's Eve party, deep in the Irish countryside, where friendships will be tested as secrets kept for more than fifty years are spilled.
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RIGHTS HELD: World English language RIGHTS SOLD: UK & Commonwealth (Orion); Translation (Orion) PREVIOUS RIGHTS SOLD: USA & Canada (Harpercollins); Germany (Piper); France (City Editions); Italy (Newton Compton); Spain (Maeva); Serbia (Vulkan); Lithuania (Baltos Lankos)
Author Biography
Kayte Nunn is a former editor, and the author of two contemporary novels. The Botanist's Daughter was Kayte's first novel of transporting historical fiction, followed by The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant and The Silk House. You can find Kayte at kaytenunn.com.
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- Publisher Hachette Australia
- Publication Date March 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780733645389
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- Pages384
- Publish StatusPublished
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