The pearl sister : CeCe's story / Lucinda Riley.

By: Riley, Lucinda [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Riley, Lucinda. Seven sisters series ; 4.Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: 510 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501180033Subject(s): Families -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | Adopted children -- Fiction | Nineteen twenties -- Fiction | Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction | Australia, Central -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father, the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe, she finds herself more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her familial origins. The only clues she holds are a photograph and the name of a female pioneer who travelled from Scotland to Australia. One hundred years earlier, Kitty McBride, a clergyman's daughter, abandoned her conservative upbringing to serve as the companion to a wealthy woman traveling from Edinburgh to Adelaide. Her ticket to a new land brings the adventure she dreamed of and a love that she had never imagined. When CeCe reaches the heat and dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia, something deep within her responds to the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people, and her soul reawakens. As she comes closer to finding the truth of her ancestry, CeCe begins to believe that this untamed, vast continent could offer her what she's always yearned for: a sense of belonging.
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"Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Macmillan" -- Title page verso.

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CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father, the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe, she finds herself more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her familial origins. The only clues she holds are a photograph and the name of a female pioneer who travelled from Scotland to Australia. One hundred years earlier, Kitty McBride, a clergyman's daughter, abandoned her conservative upbringing to serve as the companion to a wealthy woman traveling from Edinburgh to Adelaide. Her ticket to a new land brings the adventure she dreamed of and a love that she had never imagined. When CeCe reaches the heat and dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia, something deep within her responds to the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people, and her soul reawakens. As she comes closer to finding the truth of her ancestry, CeCe begins to believe that this untamed, vast continent could offer her what she's always yearned for: a sense of belonging.

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