Turtle Beach - Blanche d'Alpuget

Title: Turtle Beach
Author: Blanche d'Alpuget
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Published: 1981
ISBN: 0 14 005784 6

Condition: Very good vintage condition with light shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges, and some age toning. Binding is solid and pages are clean and readable. Please see photos for the exact condition of the copy available.

Turtle Beach is an acclaimed Australian literary novel set against political unrest and refugee crises in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Journalist Judith Wilkes returns to Malaysia to cover an international refugee emergency, confronting unresolved personal trauma, political tensions, and dangerous emotional entanglements.

The novel combines political drama, psychological tension, and literary realism, building toward a tragic climax on the East Malaysian coast where giant turtles gather to breed. Often compared in atmosphere to the work of Graham Greene, the novel explores ambition, cultural conflict, morality, and human vulnerability.