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Samarinda Lazenby had had an eventful and exciting career. The first few years of her life had been spent in a Japanese internment camp, the middle years accompanying her father arround the world, and her adult life training as a surgeon. When her father died it was hardly surprising that she accepted a post as Senior Surgical Officer on Ramdon Island in the Pacific. And almost inmediately "Sami" was flung into a maelstrom of chaotic event. The island, in the grip of a typhoon, became incaccessible by normal transport and Sami - aware of their desperate medical needs - was forced to turn to the handsome but enigmatic Captain James Bruce to help....
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1960sContemporary FictionDoctors in FictionRomance Fiction
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Ramdon Island
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V. A. Stuart
2 January 1914 – August 1986
Violet Vivian Finlay was born on 2 January 1914 in Berkshire, England, UK, the daughter of Alice Kathleen (née Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. Her father was the owner and director of Burmah Oil Company Ltd., whose Scottish family also owned James Finlay and Company Ltd. The majority of her childhood and youth was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now also known as Myanmar), where her father worked. During her life, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra. Although Vivian is well-known by the surname of Stuart, she married four times during her lifetime, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary …
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