The Opal Desert
$22.10
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2012
Summary
From Australia’s favourite storyteller.
Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams.
Shirley, approaching 80, believes she was betrayed by her lover many years ago and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout. Her new friends cause her to reassess what she’s done with her life…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742611211 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742611214 |
| Author: | Di Morrissey |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Pan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 323g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Di Morrissey
Di Morrissey is one of Australia’s most successful writers. She began writing as a young woman, training and working as a journalist for Australian Consolidated Press in Sydney and Northcliffe Newspapers in London. She has worked in television in Australia and in the USA as a presenter, reporter, producer and actress. After her marriage to a US diplomat, Peter Morrissey, she lived in Singapore, Japan, Thailand, South America and Washington. Returning to Australia, Di continued to work in television before publishing her first novel in 1991. Di has a daughter, Dr Gabrille Hansen, and Di’s son, Dr Nicholas Morrissey, is a lecturer in South East Asian Art History and Buddhist Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Di has three beautiful grandchildren: Sonoma Grace, Everton Peter and William James Bodhi. Di and her partner, Boris Janjic, live in the Manning Valley in New South Wales when not travelling to research her novels, which are all inspired by a particular landscape.
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