Seductive and satisfying ... Readers will want to devour it in one sitting' Publishers Weekly.

Vorwort

From the internationally bestselling author of The Thorn Birds comes this novella about love, friendship and quiet rebellion.

Autorentext
Colleen McCullough was born in New South Wales in 1937. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in hospitals in Australia, the UK and USA before writing her first novel. She lives with her husband on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.

Klappentext

Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty, victim to the family's rule of inheritance: the men take it all. It seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger arrives in town. A divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.