The Country of Marriage
 First UK edition | |
| Author | Jon Cleary |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Collins (UK) William Morrow (US) |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Preceded by | North from Thursday |
| Followed by | Forests of the Night |
The Country of Marriage is a 1962 novel written by Jon Cleary.[1]
Synopsis
[edit]The novel concerns the marriage between Adam Nash and his wife Belle and their decision whether to leave England, where they have lived for seventeen years and raised two young children, and go back to Belle's country, Australia, where they had met during World War II.[2]
Cleary wrote a number of screen versions of the novel but it has never been filmed.[3]
Critical reception
[edit]In The Bulletin a reviewer found the novel "boring". They continued: "Apart from the difficulty of being interested by the problems of a garrulous group of materialistic middle-class nonentities, its manner is, if I may coin a word, 'Yawny."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Country of Marriage by Jon Cleary". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "New serial is warm-hearted story of a happy marriage". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 25 April 1962. p. 110. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
- ^ Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History at National Film and Sound Archive
- ^ ""Yawny Country"". The Bulletin, 23 June 1962, p62. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- 1962 serialisation of novel in the Australian Women's Weekly
- The Country of Marriage at AustLit (subscription required)