TY  - BOOK
AU  - French,Jackie
TI  - The sea captain's wife
SN  - 9781867243489
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20240206
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Gadigal Country, Sydney, NSW
PB  - HQ Fiction
KW  - Island life
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ship captains
KW  - Ship captains' spouses
KW  - Murder
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
N2  - When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the naked, half-drowned man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's also obsessed by a 'ghost ship' carrying golden cargo. On Big Henry Island women make the decisions and knit the patterns that mark a man as their own. But Big Henry is also a volcano, and threatening to erupt. Yet when Mair agrees to accompany Michael home, she finds that the Australian comfort he promised has a danger just as real: a social system that tries to keep women confined to small roles at the edges of men's lives. And as Michael hunts for the 'Ghost' in his revolutionary new steamship, a string of mysterious deaths upends Mair's new life in Sydney. Who is committing these murders, and why is Mair the only one who realises what is happening?
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