Fishing for Stars

Note: This mostly good book suffers a bit from foxing on the outer edge of the pages.  The foxing is also creeping in on some of the pages BUT it is still quite readable.  I'm putting it in the bargain bin for you guys; I hope to find it a good home.

Nick Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second World War. So he puts pen to paper and tells the compelling tale of the life he has lived since his war-hero days.

It's an adventurous life that has had at its heart the love of two passionate and unforgettable—but very different—women. The seductive Anna Til and the beguiling Marg Hamilton have spent a lifetime in contest for Nick's devotion. Nick remains torn between them, and struggles between their two opposing worlds of economic exploitation and environmental crusade—until he is called upon to referee...

Moving between the exotic Pacific Islands, Japan and Australia, over several decades, FISHING FOR STARS is an epic drama of adventure, ambition and unconventional love, and the stunning sequel to Bryce Courtenay's best-selling THE PERSIMMON TREE.

I hope you like Fishing for Stars – it is a story of ambition, destruction, love, tears and laughter, with a soupçon of hope thrown in.

Bryce Courtenay