The sea captain's wife / Jackie French.
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TextPublisher: Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 468 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781867243489Subject(s): Island life -- Fiction | Ship captains -- Fiction | Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 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?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 26/05/2024 | 31111089967655 |
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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