''If you like your passions grand and your views panoramic, then Daughter of Fortune will be irresistible'' The Times Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the spinster Miss Rose and her rigid brother Jeremy. She meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a clerk who works for Jeremy; but when gold is discovered in the hills of northern California, he disappears to seek his fortune in San Francisco, and Eliza can''t help but follow. With the help of newfound friends, Eliza finds a place for herself in this burgeoning society, and California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. And while Eliza went to California for someone else, what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom. Spirited and daring, Daughter of Fortune is a tale of romance, adventure, and of a sparky and ambitious heroine finding herself where she never imagined she would.

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Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is a literary living legend and phenomenon. With 77 million books sold, she is the most-read author in the Spanish language throughout the world, and a blockbuster international bestseller of adult novels. A novelist, feminist and philanthropist, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Her work has been translated into over 42 languages, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She lives in California.

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'If you like your passions grand and your views panoramic, then Daughter of Fortune will be irresistible' The Times

In colonial Chile, 1832, the infant Eliza is found on the doorstep of the British Import and Export Company. Adopted by the maternal Miss Rose, she is raised dutifully, with Victorian piety and propriety. But as a young woman, Eliza falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta - and when he leaves for the gold-laden hills of California, she can't help but follow.

With the aid of newfound friends, Eliza finds a place for herself in this burgeoning society; and while she came to California for someone else, what was once a search for love transforms into a profound discovery of her own freedom.

'An extravagant tale by a gifted storyteller whose spell brings to life the 19th century world' Los Angeles Times