When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching job in a girls' grammar school and drifts from one temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him her grandfather's wartime diary with a mission to return to Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest, which ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often laconic style gives full reign to the characters' latent sexuality.
Author Bio: Humphrey Muller, once a professor of English in South Africa during the Apartheid years, moved to Scotland to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels: A Twist in Time, the Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, Continental Drift, and with his wife Carolyn has co-authored two novels: Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy by 'Carolyn Charles'.
When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching job in a girls' grammar school and drifts from one temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him her grandfather's wartime diary with a mission to return to Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest, which ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often laconic style gives full reign to the characters' latent sexuality.
Author Bio: Humphrey Muller, once a professor of English in South Africa during the Apartheid years, moved to Scotland to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels: A Twist in Time, the Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, Continental Drift, and with his wife Carolyn has co-authored two novels: Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy by 'Carolyn Charles'.
Wheel of Fortune
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ISBN-13: | 9780595095148 |
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Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 05/01/2000 |
Series: | Wheel of Fortune , #2 |
Pages: | 420 |
Product dimensions: | 6.06(w) x 9.04(h) x 1.09(d) |