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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We tear along beside the river which keeps changing its course and eating up Laing's Point . Miri's father says the tides are higher than ever this summer . He wonders if the tide patterns are changing .
We tear along beside the river which keeps changing its course and eating up Laing's Point . Miri's father says the tides are higher than ever this summer . He wonders if the tide patterns are changing .
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Or with . a Once I was making drop castles by the river and Colonel Holdaway who lives along the beach came along with his shooting stick which has a spike with a ring around it to stop it going too far into the sand .
Or with . a Once I was making drop castles by the river and Colonel Holdaway who lives along the beach came along with his shooting stick which has a spike with a ring around it to stop it going too far into the sand .
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Good , ' says Charlie and turns towards the river . And suddenly he's off again , pointing and jumping up and down and yelling . ' Look ! he shouts . ' Look ! And there , floating away up the river almost beyond the Bully Pond already ...
Good , ' says Charlie and turns towards the river . And suddenly he's off again , pointing and jumping up and down and yelling . ' Look ! he shouts . ' Look ! And there , floating away up the river almost beyond the Bully Pond already ...
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