On the Outside Looking in

Julie Ellis

On the Outside Looking in
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 May 2008
Pages
320
ISBN
9780727876775

On the Outside Looking in

Julie Ellis

This title is from the well-loved storyteller. It is 1994. Castro’s Cuba - repressive and corrupt - is no place to be young, idealistic and in love. Chris Sanchez, a newly-qualified paediatrician, feels loyalty to his country, yet is frustrated by the poverty and hardship suffered by all but the wealthy ruling elite. Chris and his friends, educated and ambitious, are nevertheless powerless to help their countrymen.When Chris falls in love with pretty, caring Eva, a nurse at the same hospital in Havana, he is torn between a misplaced sense of patriotic duty and his desire for a better life. As their relationship deepens, the two young people must confront a terrible choice…

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