The Country of Marriage
Book by Jon Cleary
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The Country of Marriage is a 1962 novel written by Jon Cleary.[1]
First UK edition | |
| Author | Jon Cleary |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Collins (UK) William Morrow (US) |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Preceded by | North from Thursday |
| Followed by | Forests of the Night |
Synopsis
The novel concerns the marriage between Adam Nash and his wife Belle and their decision whether to leave England, where they have lived for seventeen years and raised three teenages, and go back to Belle's country, Australia, where they had met during World War II.[2]
Cleary wrote a number of screen versions of the novel but it has never been filmed.[3]
Critical reception
In The Bulletin a reviewer found the novel "boring". They continued: "Apart from the difficulty of being interested by the problems of a garrulous group of materialistic middle-class nonentities, its manner is, if I may coin a word, 'Yawny."[4]