**In Lesley Glaister's spellbinding outback thriller, a young couple's flight from a cold and dreary English winter traps them in a sunbaked nightmare** For Cassie, the ad in the newspaper is a dream come true. Spending a year managing a farm in western Australia away from everything and everyone
The Road Narrows As You Go
โ Scribed by Henderson, Lee
- Book ID
- 108636269
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (Canada)
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780670069897
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
All Wendy Ashbubble has ever wanted is to draw comics as well as Charles Schultz's Peanuts --and to one day see her creations grace the pages of a major daily newspaper. Growing up in Victoria in the 1970s, Wendy dreams of getting out, getting away ... and getting recognition for her talent. And there's another, never-whispered motivation that prompts her to seek her fortune: a deeply buried memory and unshakeable belief that her unknown father is Ronald Reagan, the fortieth president of the United States.
A chance meeting in Victoria with an attractive-but-mysterious travelling artist inspires Wendy to take the plunge, and she runs away to live in a dilapidated artists' commune in San Francisco. There, amid the haze of top-quality weed, unbridled creativity, and unfettered sex, her dream begins to take tangible shape. With the aid of Frank Fleecen, an up-and-coming bonds trader and agent, Wendy's Strays are soon competing for newsprint space against the...
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