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Impulsive, idealistic, and restless, Emily Stanton finds herself with university behind her, on the threshold of life in 1920's Melbourne. When she is introduced to a Franco-Scottish engineer whose Paris home promises the exotic, she chooses against academia and leaves Australia to become a wife. But marriage and the prospect of motherhood soon fail to provide sufficient fulfilment and she embarks on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening that takes her as far as Tunisia, and...Vis mer