No hearts of gold / Jackie French.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney, NSW] : Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 409 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781460757925; 1460757920Subject(s): Women -- Australia -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Women pioneers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Fiction | Businesswomen -- Australia -- Fiction | England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 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.
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"Three women whose hearts are forged by friendship and stronger than gold."-- on cover.
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.
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