Pacific / Judy Nunn.
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TextPublication details: Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2004Description: 661 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1740513045Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area | Motion picture actors and actresses | Historical fiction, Australian | Nurses | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Fiction | Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Fiction | Nurses -- Fiction | Authors, Australian | Women and war -- Fiction | Actresses -- Fiction | Actresses | South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction | South Pacific OceanGenre/Form: Australian fiction | Historical fiction | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: PR 9619.3 .N648 | P32 2004Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.randomhouse.com.au.Summary: After fulfilling her dream of performing on the London stage, Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first Hollywood movie role. She's to play Sarah Blackston, a character loosely based on World War II heroine Mamma Tack, an English nurse who was invaluable to the US forces and native population of the New Hebrides during the conflict in the Pacific. It's the role of a lifetime. On location in Vanuatu, uncanny parallels between history and fiction emerge and Sam begins a quest for the truth. Just who was the real Mamma Tack? And what was the tragic secret that threatens to destroy people in the present day? The answers reveal not only secrets of the past but Sam's own destiny. A masterful interweaving of the lives of two passionate women and two worlds, 'Pacific' is Judy Nunn at her enthralling best.
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Previously published: 2004.
After fulfilling her dream of performing on the London stage, Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first Hollywood movie role. She's to play Sarah Blackston, a character loosely based on World War II heroine Mamma Tack, an English nurse who was invaluable to the US forces and native population of the New Hebrides during the conflict in the Pacific. It's the role of a lifetime. On location in Vanuatu, uncanny parallels between history and fiction emerge and Sam begins a quest for the truth. Just who was the real Mamma Tack? And what was the tragic secret that threatens to destroy people in the present day? The answers reveal not only secrets of the past but Sam's own destiny. A masterful interweaving of the lives of two passionate women and two worlds, 'Pacific' is Judy Nunn at her enthralling best.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.randomhouse.com.au.
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