The Country of Marriage

The Country of Marriage is a 1962 novel written by Jon Cleary.^[1]

Strike Me Lucky

First UK edition
Author	Jon Cleary
Language	English
Publisher	Collins (UK) William Morrow (US)
Publication date	1962
Publication place	Australia
Preceded by	North from Thursday
Followed by	Forests of the Night

Synopsis

The novel concerns the marriage between Adam Nash and his wife Belle and their decision whether to leave England, where they have lived for seventeen years and raised two young children, and go back to Belle's country, Australia, where they had met during World War II.^[2]

Cleary wrote a number of screen versions of the novel but it has never been filmed.^[3]

Critical reception

In The Bulletin a reviewer found the novel "boring". They continued: "Apart from the difficulty of being interested by the problems of a garrulous group of materialistic middle-class nonentities, its manner is, if I may coin a word, 'Yawny."^[4]