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Author Astley, Thea.

Title A descant for gossips / Thea Astley
Published london : Angus and Robertson, 1960
Angus & Robertson, 1960

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 MELB  827.03 A8555 A6/D  AVAILABLE
Description 262 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Robert Moller and Helen Striebel are schoolteachers in a narrow-minded Queensland provincial town. They are set apart from their fellows and brought intimately together by their shared qualities of honesty and human respect, of tolerance, and a desire to understand. Young Vinny Lalor's sensitivity and insight have kept her isolated 'on the fringe of things'; when she is treated with affection and sympathy by her teachers she responds with a fierce intensity, acquiring strength and integrity in the process
SUBJECT Cooroibah (Qld.) -- Fiction
Queensland -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116480
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. qit00008427
ISBN 070221843X