The opal desert / Di Morrissey.

By: Morrissey, DiMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Australia, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Description: 406 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781742610351 (pbk.)Subject(s): Sparsely populated areas -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts | Opal mines and mining -- Australia -- Fiction | Opal mines and mining -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Friendship | Women | Australian fiction | Australia -- Fiction | Australian fictionGenre/Form: General fiction | Domestic fiction | Australian fiction | General fiction | Fiction. | Australian fiction | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: A823.3Online resources: Click here to search for similar authors using Fiction Connection
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"Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields" -- Cover. -Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she made many sacrifices and she now finds her life has lost direction. Shirley, approaching 80, was betrayed by her lover many years before and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout.
Summary: Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she made many sacrifices and she now finds her life has lost direction. Shirley, approaching 80, was betrayed by her lover many years before and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout.
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"Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields"--Cover.

"Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields" -- Cover. -Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she made many sacrifices and she now finds her life has lost direction. Shirley, approaching 80, was betrayed by her lover many years before and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout.

Three women, facing uncertain futures, form an unlikely friendship in Australia's remote opal fields. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she made many sacrifices and she now finds her life has lost direction. Shirley, approaching 80, was betrayed by her lover many years before and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout.

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