High Hopes on Sea

ISBN-10: 0702235253
ISBN-13: 9780702235252
Category: Australian fiction
Pages: 62
Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Author: Jenny Wagner

Description

Mr Hope invents wonderful new devices, Mrs. Hope likes burnt toast. Marissa watches the waves. And Dion listens to the whispers of the wind. But when Mr. Owen Mortlock and his brother Selwyn decide to build some apartments, everything is suddenly different. The wind goes away, the ocean vanishes from their windows, and that's not even the worst bit . . . But of course, there's always hope . . . and there's always a breeze somewhere.

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