A Distant Land

Author(s): Alison Booth

Fiction

Back in 1957, nine-year-old Zidra Vincent met Jim Cadwallader for the first time. Fourteen years later, their bond of friendship - forged during a childhood in the beautiful coastal town of Jingera - is still strong. But is friendship all they dream of? Jim is now a respected war correspondent in Cambodia, though he has plans to come home for good. Because there is something very important he wants to say to Zidra. Zidra, meanwhile, is an ambitious reporter at the Sydney Morning Chronicle, and the seeds of a major story have just landed in her lap. Life is looking good, if only she could share it with the man who knows her best. Then, while at work in the newsroom one morning, Zidra catches sight of a wire-service bulletin. A story out of Cambodia. The body of a Western journalist has been discovered near Phnom Penh. And her world collapses around her ...

General Information

  • : 9781864711943
  • : Random House Australia
  • : Bantam
  • : 0.37
  • : April 2012
  • : 234mm X 154mm X 26mm
  • : Australia
  • : July 2012
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Alison Booth
  • : Paperback
  • : A823.4
  • : 240

More About The Product

Alison Booth was born in Victoria and brought up in Sydney. After over two decades living in the UK, she returned to Australia in 2002 and is now a professor of economics at the Australian National University. She is married with two daughters. Alison is the author of two novels, STILLWATER CREEK and THE INDIGO SKY. She is currently hard at work on her third, which will be set in Jingera in 1970.