The sea captain's wife / Jackie French ; read by Edwina Wren.

By: French, Jackie [author.]Contributor(s): Wren, Edwina [narrator.] | Harper Audio (Firm)Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2024]Copyright date: ℗2024Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 13 CDs (14 hr., 27 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781460734889Subject(s): Island life -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction | Ship captains -- Fiction | Women -- Social conditions -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Audiobooks. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Romance fiction. Read by Edwina Wren.Summary: You never know what the sea will give you or what it will take back. 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 edge 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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You never know what the sea will give you or what it will take back. 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 edge 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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