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It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an English Anglican Priest , and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australia n heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia , and discover that they both like to gamble. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass Church into the outback in one piece. This bet changes both their lives forever. The novel partly takes its inspiration from ''Father and Son'', the autobiography of the English poet Edmund Gosse , which describes his relationship with his father, Philip Henry Gosse . A film was made from the book in 1997 , directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Ralph Fiennes , Cate Blanchett and Tom Wilkinson . |
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