Title: Stars' Tennis Balls
Published: 2004
Pages: 384
Obtained: ?
From: ?
Paid: $0.00
Int Cond: G
Goodreads Rating: 3.79

This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Ned’s destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Ned’s intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Ned’s recovery are felt worldwide.

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Books on the Avenue - Street Library
15 Gregson Ave, Mayfield West, NSW
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Movements
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22 Sep 2017 - purchased
03 May 2019 - retired