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    The Sundowners

    By Jon Cleary

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    The epic tale of an outback Australian family, The Sundowners has sold more than three million copies worldwide.


    the Carmodys travel the countryside shearing, droving, making ends meet and looking for that one special spot they can settle down in. Paddy is at heart a wanderer - the whole country's his backyard, he says - but his wife Ida, and their 14-year-old son, Sean, long for a place to call home. As they move from job to job, Paddy, Ida and Sean encounter some of the most memorable characters in fiction.

    Set against the magnificent backdrop of the harsh and beautiful Australian landscape, the Sundowners is a novel filled with kindness and hapiness, as well as hardship and danger. Superbly written and deeply moving, it showcases one of Australia's most talented authors at the height of his powers.

    In 1960 the bestselling novel was turned into a film starring Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Peter Ustinov.

    'thoroughly satisfying' the New York times

    'Blows through the dusty book lists like a warm south wind' Daily Express

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781743099346
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    Jon Cleary

    Jon Cleary, who died in July 2010, was the author of over fifty novels, including The High Commissioner, which was the first in a popular detective fiction series featuring Sydney Police Inspector Scobie Malone. In 1996 he was awarded the Inaugural Ned Kelly Award for his lifetime contribution to crime fiction in Australia. His last novel,Four Cornered Circle, was published in 2007.

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      On the back fly leaf of this book the author said that he was tired of the griping in so many recent books and he wanted to write;"a novel in which the people weren't troubled by neuroses and didn't blame the world for their own shortcomings."And in this Jon Cleary succeeded very well. This is a feel good book from beginning to end. when you finish the book you'll sigh and say "wish I was there"