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Author McCullough, Colleen, 1937-2015.

Title An indecent obsession / Colleen McCullough
Edition First Australian edition
Published New York ; Sydney : Harper & Row, 1981

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 W'PONDS  827.03 M1335 A6/I  AVAILABLE
 MELB  827.03 M1335 A6/I  AVAILABLE
Description 317 pages ; 25 cm
Summary Colleen McCullough's third novel is set on one of the Pacific islands at the end of the Second World War. Honour Langtry has been trusted with sole charge of Ward X, whose five inmates have had mental breakdowns in combat and each of whom, in his own way, is in love with Honour. Into their world comes a sixth patient, Sergeant Wilson who causes a highly charged emotional atmosphere and leads Honour to tragedy trapped between this obsession and her duty
Notes Also published: London : Macdonald, 1981
Simultaneously published: New York: Harper & Row
Subject Australian fiction -- 20th century.
Historical fiction, Australian.
Military hospitals -- Pacific Area -- Fiction.
Military psychiatry -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Australia -- Fiction.
Nursing -- Fiction.
Psychiatric nursing -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Fiction.
Soldiers -- Australia -- Fiction.
War neuroses -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Hospitals -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 81047547
ISBN 0060149205 (New York)
0063120496