Outbreak Of Love

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Lansdown Press
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 1975
Edition: Reprint

Description: 254 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Outbreak Of Love Gives An Authentic Portrait Of A Forgotten Australian Society: Melbourne Just Before World War 1.

Publishers Description: Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity.Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that hard could break a tooth. When Diana goes to Melbourne to have the tooth fixed, Wolfie is far too concerned with finding inspiration for his musical compositions to realise the chain of events he has just set in motion. On Collins Street, Russell Lockwood catches a glimpse of his childhood friend and knows at once that she is a rare woman…Now Diana and Wolfie’s marriage is under threat, the Great War is approaching, and no one quite knows where their hearts belong. First published in 1957, the third novel in Martin Boyd’s celebrated Langton Quartet is a beguiling comedy of manners about the outbreak of love in inconvenient places. ...more

ISBN: 0701802146