TY  - BOOK
AU  - French,Jackie
TI  - No hearts of gold
SN  - 9781460757925
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20211202
PY  - 2021///
CY  - [Sydney, NSW]
PB  - Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia
KW  - Women
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Businesswomen
KW  - England
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History
KW  - 1788-1900
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - "Three women whose hearts are forged by friendship and stronger than gold."-- on cover
N2  - 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
ER  -