The lost pearl / Emily Madden.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : Mira, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First Australian paperback editionDescription: 466 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781489251343 (paperback)Subject(s): World War (1939-1945) | 1939-1945 | Romance fiction | Australian fiction | Historical fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | Young women -- Fiction | Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction | Granddaughters -- Fiction | Family secrets | Granddaughters | Man-woman relationships | Reminiscing in old age | Young women | Families -- Fiction | Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Popular literature | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction | Hawaii -- Honolulu | New South Wales -- Sydney | Honolulu (Hawaii) -- FictionGenre/Form: Family -- Adult fiction -- Print | Romance fiction | Historical fiction | Romance -- Adult fiction -- Print | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Romance fiction. | Romance fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a secret that spans generations could unite a family - or destroy it. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1941. On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of. As rumours of war threaten their tropical paradise, Catherine and Charlie fall in love. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 changes their lives forever. Seventy-five years later, addled by age and painkillers, Catherine tells her granddaughter Kit her story and reveals the tale of a long-lost treasure. Can Kit uncover the secret and reunite her family? Or will the truth tear them apart?
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From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a secret that spans generations could unite a family - or destroy it. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1941. On the evening of her sixteenth birthday party, Catherine McGarrie wants nothing more than for the night to be over, even though the opulence of the ballroom befits the daughter of a US Navy Rear Admiral. Then she meets Charlie, a navy officer from the other side of the tracks, a man her parents would never approve of. As rumours of war threaten their tropical paradise, Catherine and Charlie fall in love. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7th December 1941 changes their lives forever. Seventy-five years later, addled by age and painkillers, Catherine tells her granddaughter Kit her story and reveals the tale of a long-lost treasure. Can Kit uncover the secret and reunite her family? Or will the truth tear them apart?
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