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John Dollar
John Dollar | Marianne Wiggins
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Young widowed Charlotte Lewes leaves World War I England for Burma, falls in love with sailor John Dollar, and becomes marooned with him--and eight children--on a remote island
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John Dollar | Marianne Wiggins
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It is a bit misleading to, as the person who recommended this book to me did, compare this with Lord of the Flies. This is not nearly as direct a book as that- more like the female love child of George Orwell ‘s “Burmese Days” and “LotF”. By the end I was deeply invested, but felt wading through the overly imagistic first half laborious...

KVanRead Cool drawing! 4y
Creadnorthey Thanks- for lack of a better picture.. 4y
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