
The Swing Around
Barbara Anderson(Author)
Vintage (Publisher)
Published on 18. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-09-957827-7 (ISBN)
Description
New Zealand twenty years ago, when margarine was sold on prescription in pharmacies and protective tariffs ruled- The Minister of Cultural Links and Trade, an ex-dairy farmer called Hamish Carew, sets off on a 'Swing Around' of New Zealand's Asian friends and neighbours. With him are his wife Molly and two young officials, Freddy Manders and Violet Redpath. It should be a routine affair. But Molly doesn't like shopping, Freddy is consumed by bitterness at the wife who left him and the superiors who have sidelined his career, Violet finds herself unexpectedly ready for romance- and lurking on the horizon is the shadowy terrorist group Lightning Storm.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-957827-7 (9780099578277)
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The Swing Around
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Person
Barbara Anderson is the author of six novels and two collections of short stories. Sir Dirk Bogarde called her 'a quite irresistible writer with a microscopic eye for telltale details and a dazzlingly accurate ear for dialogue as it is really spoken'.