Australia, 1950. The rarely-spotted duck-billed platypus is rumoured to bring you luck. Sixteen-year-old June Westley is an ideal daughter - kind, considerate, loving, and far more at ease in the Bush pioneered by her forefathers than her own father, Arthur, who spends his days waxing the Buick in the Australian sun. One day she spots a platypus and, sure enough, luck seems to shine down on her when she falls in love with a young musician. At first their affair is enchanting and passionate; but soon they are forced to ...
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Australia, 1950. The rarely-spotted duck-billed platypus is rumoured to bring you luck. Sixteen-year-old June Westley is an ideal daughter - kind, considerate, loving, and far more at ease in the Bush pioneered by her forefathers than her own father, Arthur, who spends his days waxing the Buick in the Australian sun. One day she spots a platypus and, sure enough, luck seems to shine down on her when she falls in love with a young musician. At first their affair is enchanting and passionate; but soon they are forced to confront family hostility and jealousies, and the heritage of madness and homosexuality that threaten to destroy their relationship. A sympathetic picture of outsiders in a cloistered world, June in Her Spring is an idyllic and sensuous tale of the confusion, horror and tentative delights of first love.
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Seller's Description:
Good. 1964. Paperback. Good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name on back of cover. Sunned cover. Light foxing, remains good.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Some offsetting on the endpapers from the flaps else about fine in very good or better dust jacket with very small tears and rubbing at the spine ends. A nice copy. MacInnes was the son of novelist Angela Thirkell, and wrote a couple of influential novels of what was the English equivalent of the Beat movement.
