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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
3 Men, 4 Women
Author of: The Doll Trilogy (Kid Stakes, Other Times, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll), The Piccadilly Bushman
It is Australia in the 1950's. For the past sixteen years, sugarcane cutters, Roo and Barney, have gone to Melbourne every lay-off season to live with their barmaid girlfriends, Olive and Nancy.
Things are different from the start of the seventeenth summer. Nancy has left to get married. There has been a fight on the cane fields, and Roo, his position usurped as the toughest worker on the fields, arrives with his ego battered and no money.
Barney, once the Casanova of the cane fields, is having trouble wooing Nancy's replacement, the deeply sceptical Pearl. Amid the emotional chaos, Olive tries valiantly to maintain the reality and the dream of the past sixteen years.
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