Pigeon Post Louis de Bernieres The rest of the town

The rest of the town goes about their lives in a haze

a pair of slacker post-grads with big questions and escalating problems

Millionaire baseball star Jake Thomas is coming home to announce his engagement to his high school sweetheart

and out in the lawless Far Country

to a lesson in summoning storm clouds to help end a drought

Pigeon Post Louis de Bernieres The rest of the townReunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble: not only the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside but also scary encounters with unsafe tunnels. Worst of all is the sinister Squashy Hat, who appears to be a rival prospector and who's certainly a spy how can they keep