Dancing on Coral

Glenda Adams / Author Penguin Books $7.95 (30p) ISBN 978-0-14-

Lark Watter travels from her home in Australia to the U.S., spends some time on an uncharted island and marries a man in a media-event street ceremony that is interrupted by another woman. PW found this ""an exuberant first novel, wickedly funny and profoundly serious.'' (March)

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