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Khamsin

Khamsin

by Denise Robins

1978collectionID:Sleazy_pulp1940sContemporaryEnglishFiction
3.5
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Story of passion, heartbreak, and the haunting beauty that is Egypt. Young Phillida joins Rex Maltern, her soldier husband, at his posting by the Suez Canal Zone. It soon becomes evident that this new environment of oppressive heat, depression, ruinously expensive living and uncertain home life is bringing their marriage to the edge of disaster. Phillida is far from home, and the problems she faces seem to worsen daily. Hope lay only in unflinching love when disaster threatened.

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collectionID:Sleazy_pulp1940sContemporaryEnglishFictionRomance
First published 1978

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Setting

Khamsin (Egypt)

About the author

Denise Robins
Denise Robins

1 February 1897 – 1 May 1985

Denise Naomi Klein was born on 1 February 1897 in London, England, daughter of Herman Klein (1856-1934) and Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (1872-1954). Her parents married on 19 February 1890 at the West London Synagogue, her father was a English music critic, author and teacher of singing and her mother was a Australian-born heiress, 16 years younger than him. Denise had a half-sister, Sibyl Klein, who became an actress. She also had two older brothers, Adrian Bernard L. Klein (1892-1969), who later changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Daryl Kleyn (b. 1894). During her parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Wor…

Author

Denise Robins

First published

1978

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Arrow Books

ISBN

9781444750591

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