French, Jackie, <br/><br/>
No hearts of gold / 
Jackie French. 
 - 409 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Three women whose hearts are forged by friendship and stronger than gold."-- on cover. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781460757925 1460757920 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Australia--Fiction.<br/>Female friendship--Fiction.<br/>Man-woman relationships--Fiction.<br/>Women pioneers--Australia--New South Wales--Fiction.<br/>Businesswomen--Australia--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.<br/>Australia--History--1788-1900--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Australian fiction.<br/>Action and adventure fiction.<br/>Domestic fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>A823.4