Beyond the Black Stump
Author(s): Nevil Shute
"If somewhere is beyond the black stump it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute s novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people s home lives. Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America to work in a remote outpost in Western Australia. While out there he befriends the unconventional Regan family and falls in love with the daughter Mollie. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise."
General Information
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Arrow
- : 0.187
- : September 2009
- : 1.8 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Nevil Shute
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.9/12
- : 256
More About The Product
Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).