''The Country of Marriage'' is a 1962 novel written by

Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...

. It 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. Cleary wrote a number of screen versions of the novel but it has never been filmed.Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History
at National Film and Sound Archive

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1962 serialisation of novel in the ''Australian Women's Weekly''''The Country of Marriage''
at AustLit (subscription required) {{DEFAULTSORT:Country of Marriage 1952 Australian novels Novels first published in serial form William Collins, Sons books William Morrow and Company books Novels by Jon Cleary