Author: Colleen McCullough
Year: 2003
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Historical fiction, Romance
Cultures: Australia, Scotland
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9780099280996
9780671024192
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'Fast-moving and immensely readable ... a page turner from start to finish' - Maeve Binchy
Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her. And, isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, still plays a part...
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