But war is coming and when the Japanese invade, Kate and Edwin are forced to flee. \r\n\r\nWith the fallout of war all around them, in a place far from home, will Kate and Edwin survive their journey and find the peace they both so desperately seek?
And at some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney vanishes from her home.\r\n\r\nRuby Wright arrives for work at Sunnylakes that day expecting the usual: chores she despises; .\r\n \r\nThe Long, Long Afternoon is a riveting and deeply atmospheric mystery from the cracked heart of the American Dream.