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      Cleopatra's Sister

      by Penelope Lively
      Published
      Apr 1993
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      281
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      A palaeontologist by choice-and perhaps due to the accidental discovery of a fossil fragment on the north coast of England when he was six years old-Howard Beamish is flying to Nairobi on a professional mission when his plane is forced to land in an imaginary country called Callimbia. On assignment to write a travel piece for Sunday magazine, journalist Lucy Faulkner is on the same flight. What happens to Howard and Lucy in Callimbia is one of those accidents that determine fate, that can bring love and take away joy, that reveal to us the precariousness of our existence and the trajectory of our lives.

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      Historical Literary

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      Jan 1994 HarperPerennial ISBN13 9780060922177 ISBN10 0060922176
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      Jun 1994 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140175936 ISBN10 0140175938
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      First Edition Jan 1993 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060166670 ISBN10 0060166673
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      Oct 1993 Blackstone Audiobooks ISBN13 9780786104482 ISBN10 0786104481
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      Oct 1993 Wheeler ISBN13 9781568950396 ISBN10 156895039X
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      Jan 1994 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN13 9780708931363 ISBN10 0708931367
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