Sole Survivor Tpb

by Derek Hansen (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.51

  Disillusioned with professional life, Rosie, a doctor, unexpectedly inherits a shack on the northern tip of New Zealand's Great Barrier Island and decides it's time to begin anew. She arrives at her home to find she has two neighbors sharing the wilderness -- Red O'Hara, traumatized by horrific wartime experiences working an the Burma railway as a P.O.W. of the Japanese, and Angus McLeod, a retired policeman, who has fled from a society he has as soft and contemptible. Rosie's sudden appearance panics Red and Angus. Both of them fear she will disrupt their neatly ordered lives. And they're right. Tough, smart, and practical, Rosie soon turn the lives of Red and Angus upside down. And as they work out their relationship, an unexpected threat draws them closer together: the depredations of a big Japanese trawler threaten to destroy their food supply and their environment. As they go to sea in a desperate attempt to prevent the rape of their island paradise, this extraordinary novel of survival and love moves toward a blazing finale reminiscent of another classic: The African Queen.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $4.77

  When Rosie trethewey - disillusioned doctor turned market researcher - unexpectedly inherits a shack on the remote northern tip of Great Barrier Island, she decides it is time to begin a new life. Arriving at her new home, Rosie finds she has two neighbours sharing the wilderness. One is Red O'Hara, a refugee from horrific wartime experiences on the Burma Railway. the other Angus Mcleod, a retired policeman who's abandoned a society he sees as soft and contemptible. Rosie's sudden appearance panics Red and Angus. they both fear she'll disrupt their ordered lives. And they're right. In this inspiring novel of survival, love and conflict, three loners are forced to come to terms with themselves, each other and the encroaching world.