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Sanctuary Mass Market Paperback – 3 Sep 2018

by Judy Nunn (Author)

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In Judy Nunn's latest compelling novel, compassion meets bigotry, hatred meets love, and ultimately despair meets hope on the windswept shores of Australia.

On a barren island off the coast of Western Australia, a rickety wooden dinghy runs aground. Aboard are nine people who have no idea where they are. Strangers before the violent storm that tore their vessel apart, the instinct to survive has seen them bond during their days adrift on a vast and merciless ocean.

Fate has cast them ashore with only one thing in common . . . fear. Rassen the doctor, Massoud the student, the child Hamid and the others all fear for their lives. But in their midst is Jalila, who appears to fear nothing. The beautiful young Yazidi woman is a mystery to them all.

While they remain undiscovered on the deserted island, they dare to dream of a new life . . .

But forty kilometres away on the mainland lies the tiny fishing port of Shoalhaven. Here everyone knows everyone, and everyone has their place. In Shoalhaven things never change.

Until now . . .

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Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: ADULT LOCAL ARROW - MASS MKT (3 September 2018)
ISBN-10: 0143783866
ISBN-13: 978-0143783862
Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 322 g
Average Customer Review: 28 customer reviews

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The new novel from no.1 bestselling author Judy Nunn is a stunning portrait of love, hope and survival on an isolated island off Western Australia.

About the Author

Judy Nunn's career has been long, illustrious and multifaceted. After combining her internationally successful acting career with scriptwriting for television and radio, Judy decided in the 90s to turn her hand to prose.

Her first three novels, The Glitter Game, Centre Stage and Araluen, set respectively in the worlds of television, theatre and film, became instant bestsellers, and the rest is history, quite literally in fact. She has since developed a love of writing Australian historically-based fiction and her fame as a novelist has spread rapidly throughout Europe where she is published in English, German, French, Dutch, Czech and Spanish.

Her subsequent bestsellers, Kal, Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, Floodtide, Maralinga, Tiger Men, Elianne and Spirits of the Ghan confirm Judy's position as one of Australia's leading fiction writers.

In 2015 Judy was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "significant service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author".

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Compassion meets Bigotry sums it up!

20 February 2018

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Excellent read that real does make you think about your own views on illegal immigrants and how they should be treated. If you have ever visited the north west coast of Western Australia you will be able to visualize just how beautiful and remote this area is. It is a magical, mysterious place!
A small group of asylum seekers are saved from imminent death by landing on a small atoll with no idea where in the world they are. Desperate measures mean all these strangers must work together for their very survival which in turn brings them the closeness of friendships. The story goes on to describe how they all came to this point which in its self is quite remarkable. One young girl has witnessed such trauma that she is continually vacant and withdrawn and no one can reach her in anyway. The one thing in their favour is they are on Australian soil as they discover later and this influences the inevitable outcome when they are discovered. Love that we all have a purpose in this world.

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An enlightening story

31 January 2019

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This is the story of a small group of survivors of a sinking refugee boat that was trying to reach Australia. They ended up shipwrecked on an uninhabited island off the coast of Western Australia. The refugees are from different countries and fleeing different situations. If they are discovered by officials they will be treated as illegal immigrants and sent to a detention centre.

Eventually, a lone fisherman discovers them and he enlists support of the small fishing village of Shoalhaven. As it turns out a high percentage of Shoalhaven residents are migrants or children of migrants, yet they all consider themselves as Australian and they rally around to support the refugees.

The characterisation of the individual refugees is very good. Amongst them is the traumatised, almost mute girl Jalila, whose eventual recovery is a little too contrived. The book ends with much unresolved and it would have been nice to know more of the story.

The author has managed to beautifully capture the imagery and atmosphere of the Western Australian coast setting.

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Sanctuary

6 November 2017

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Again Judy Nunn has written a great story that I thoroughly enjoyed. She usually researches well and gives us a wonderful understanding of Australia and its history but this time the subject matter is now. Her insight into refugees and their desperation is a topic we are all familiar with and her story makes it real to the reader. I highly recommend this book. Enjoy.

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Brilliant

3 March 2018

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This book was out of the ballpark for me and was written with great research and compassion. Although the characters were fictional, you grew to know them through all their previous trials and tribulations. If I learned anything from this story, it was mankind needs to treat all races and beliefs with respect and a lot more tolerance. Well written Judy- you are one heck of an author.

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An honest, beautiful and uplifting story.

14 January 2018

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An Hon, beautiful and uplifting story, full of the ravages of war and discrimination - but saved by the magnificence of the the human spirit....it took me a while to embrace this story, the characters were well developed and explained but the initial boat trip and arrival on the island was very forlorn and I almost gave up in despair - I'm so glad I didn't!

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Awesome read

13 December 2017

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Thank you Judy for this heart warming story, it made me see these people through different eyes, I want to know the rest of their story, and will imagine a very happy ending for all the survivors. And Bev, Paul and Lou. I loved that the fishing townspeople rallied when needed and they were all so Australian.
We are a nation of immigrants anyway ,invaders originally,so this country should be protected but shared .
Read this and Judy’s other books and you’ll reAlly know Australia.

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Leonie Lynch

another Judy Nunn book I enjoyed. Great writing and so true to the Australian ...

3 June 2018

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As usual, another Judy Nunn book I enjoyed.
Great writing and so true to the Australian way.
I could picture the whole thing even though I have never visited Shoalhaven
Only negative was it finished - I would have liked the story to continue........

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Tolerance not judgement.

9 July 2018

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This is a book that really challenges people. Firstly, it is a novel which is covering a situation affecting the world from a whole new perspective, that of the refugees and those who judge too quickly without taking the time to befriend these people and, in a lot of cases, with little or no knowledge of the terrible trauma these people had come through that drove them to flee in the face of the horrors of terrorism.

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