The orphans / Adoptees Man-woman relationships Murder Orphans Stepmothers Undertakers and undertaking Wool industry
McIntosh, Fiona, 1960-
The orphans / Fiona McIntosh ; read by Ainslie McGlynn. - Unabridged. - 11 CDs (13 hr., 2 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Read by Ainslie McGlynn.
Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife, and she quickly develops a special gift for helping bereaved families. Her ambition to be the first female mortician in the country is fuelled by her plan to bring more women into the male-dominated funeral industry. Raised in the outback of South Australia's Flinders Ranges, Tom Catchlove is faced with a life-changing tragedy as a young boy. He works hard but dreams big, striving for a future as a wool classer. A chance encounter between the two children will change the course of their lives. By adulthood Fleur finds herself fighting for the survival of the family's business, while her widowed father drinks away generations of prosperity and a new, conniving stepmother wants Fleur gone. When Tom emerges from the isolation of the desert to find new work at the port wool stores, his path crosses with Fleur's again - only to be caught up in a murder investigation, in which they can only trust each other.
9781038623669
Adoptees--Family relationships--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Stepmothers--Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking--Fiction.
Wool industry--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
The orphans / Fiona McIntosh ; read by Ainslie McGlynn. - Unabridged. - 11 CDs (13 hr., 2 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Read by Ainslie McGlynn.
Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife, and she quickly develops a special gift for helping bereaved families. Her ambition to be the first female mortician in the country is fuelled by her plan to bring more women into the male-dominated funeral industry. Raised in the outback of South Australia's Flinders Ranges, Tom Catchlove is faced with a life-changing tragedy as a young boy. He works hard but dreams big, striving for a future as a wool classer. A chance encounter between the two children will change the course of their lives. By adulthood Fleur finds herself fighting for the survival of the family's business, while her widowed father drinks away generations of prosperity and a new, conniving stepmother wants Fleur gone. When Tom emerges from the isolation of the desert to find new work at the port wool stores, his path crosses with Fleur's again - only to be caught up in a murder investigation, in which they can only trust each other.
9781038623669
Adoptees--Family relationships--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Stepmothers--Fiction.
Undertakers and undertaking--Fiction.
Wool industry--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.