The Garden Party and other stories

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Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea.

subjects: Fiction,  Death,  Parties,  Social classes,  Lesbians,  Short stories,  Classic Literature,  Parties - Fiction,  Death - Fiction,  Short stories - Collection,  Juvenile fiction,  Social classes - Fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  New Zealand literature,  Social life and customs,  Children's fiction,  Death, fiction