Long Hot SummerIt is 1936. As they have done every summer, the Hopkins family - Anne, 8, Duncan, 12, Charlie, 5, and their parents, Derek and Lorna - have rented a house at the Beach. Alone during the week, Lorna is bored. When James Clements, the most handsome man in the Bay, decides to make an amateur cowboy film called 'Lust in the Dust', Lorna plays the whore with the heart of gold. James' sister Isabel is the cameraman, and the local Maoris are enrolled as Indians. The film's title proves disturbingly prophetic. Unaccustomed proximity leads to unaccustomed liaisons, allegiances are questioned and the old certainties suddenly melt away. It is the perfect story to display Barbara Anderson's extraordinary gifts. |
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... Derek will over - react , will respond with pompous platitudes and I can laugh at him . I stoke him up . He seldom ... Derek said he realised that technically this was so , but in actual fact Charlie was begging for them and it must stop ...
... Derek will over - react , will respond with pompous platitudes and I can laugh at him . I stoke him up . He seldom ... Derek said he realised that technically this was so , but in actual fact Charlie was begging for them and it must stop ...
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... Derek himself . There will be no further bulletins from me . Derek was indeed disappointed . I can scarcely bear to look at him when the children ' let him down ' . The very phrase defeats me . It is a favourite of Mrs Clements also ...
... Derek himself . There will be no further bulletins from me . Derek was indeed disappointed . I can scarcely bear to look at him when the children ' let him down ' . The very phrase defeats me . It is a favourite of Mrs Clements also ...
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... Derek . ' I'll go and get it . ' ' Excellent . Thanks , Derek . And we'll get on down here . Quick as you can , there's a good man , and in the meantime . . . ' Derek winks in my direction and departs . The tide is now on the turn . To ...
... Derek . ' I'll go and get it . ' ' Excellent . Thanks , Derek . And we'll get on down here . Quick as you can , there's a good man , and in the meantime . . . ' Derek winks in my direction and departs . The tide is now on the turn . To ...
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