Facing Out to Sea by Peter Adamson

Facing Out to Sea by Peter Adamson

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Clara, a successful businesswoman, stays at the Galle Face Hotel while holidaying in Sri Lanka. Here she meets Vijay, a waiter who has slowly worked his family out of the shanty town he was born in. But the seemingly innocent relationship which they develop is to have profound repercussions.

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Facing Out to Sea by Peter Adamson

Clara, a successful businesswoman, stays at the Galle Face Hotel while holidaying in Sri Lanka. Here she meets Vijay, a waiter who has slowly worked his family out of the shanty town he was born in. But the seemingly innocent relationship which they develop is to have profound repercussions.
After reading English at Oxford, where he supplemented his grant by writing for the Sunday Express, Peter Adamson went on to found the New Internationalist in 1970. He has also written and narrated various BBC television documentaries, and worked for UNICEF for fifteen years.
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ISBN 13 9780340695654
ISBN 10 034069565X
Title Facing Out to Sea
Author Peter Adamson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Year published 1998-05-21
Number of pages 343
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.