No hearts of gold /
Jackie French.
- 409 pages ; 24 cm.
"Three women whose hearts are forged by friendship and stronger than gold."-- on cover.
Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is sold in an arranged marriage to a colony across the world. Lady Viola Montefiore is the dark-skinned changeling of a ducal family, kept hidden and then shipped away. Titania Boot is as broad as a carthorse, and as useful. On the long sea voyage from their homeland of England, these three women are fast bonded in an unlikely friendship. In the turmoil of 1850s Australia - which has reinvented itself from convict colony to a land of gold rushes and illusive riches - one woman forges a business empire, while another turns to illegal brewery, working alongside a bushranger as the valleys around her are destroyed. The third vanishes on her wedding day, in a scandal that will intrigue and mystify Sydney's polite society and beyond.
9781460757925 1460757920
Women--Australia--Fiction. Female friendship--Fiction. Man-woman relationships--Fiction. Women pioneers--Australia--New South Wales--Fiction. Businesswomen--Australia--Fiction.