Ladder to the moon
By: P.J. Fry
Publisher: Longview International Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Christchurch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780473339302; 9780473339319
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Peacekeeping forces; Fiction; Intercountry marriage
Description: "It is 1977. Leila Ashrawi, from a middle-class Palestinian family dispossessed during the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, and John Ferris, a New Zealand Army captain serving as a UN military observer on the Israel-Lebanon border, meet and fall in love. Amidst confusion and violence the couple's plan to make a new life together on the other side of the world comes only at the expense of great anguish and desperation. There is page-turning drama and heart-stopping tension here, and first-class writing, but also humour, comradeship and, above all, a deeply moving love story that stretches across more than two decades" --Back cover.
Notes: Novel.

"It is 1977. Leila Ashrawi, from a middle-class Palestinian family dispossessed during the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, and John Ferris, a New Zealand Army captain serving as a UN military observer on the Israel-Lebanon border, meet and fall in love. Amidst confusion and violence the couple's plan to make a new life together on the other side of the world comes only at the expense of great anguish and desperation"--Back cover.