London: William Heinemann Ltd. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Some rubs and sight loss to base of . unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, reading block edge toned, . light foxing. ; Fawn cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight . copy, no names inside. DJ design by Peter Dyer with artwork by John . Heseltine.. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; 216 pages; Novel which is both a love story and a mystery, set in a continent poised for revolution, and a world on the edge of war. For eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman, hired as his secretary by his sister, is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconvential, Miss Anna Hansen is a feminist, a women ahead of her time spending a year traveling before her marriage to an English diplomat. Before she leaves she will come perilously close to loving another man, stumbling upon evidence, she thinks, of a secret crime, and been shaken by a violent and mysterious death. ; 0434666114 .

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26673
Title: Plans for Departure A Novel
Author: Sahgal, Nayantara
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Some rubs and sight loss to base of unclipped DJ, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, readi
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0434666114
ISBN 13: 9780434666119
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1986
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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