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|  | | A Voice to be Heard
A story of twin girls destined to change the fabric of Melbourne society during its early days and the heady times of the Victorian gold rush.
Joey and Maddy Gower are twins, born to an unwed mother in Bedford, England in 1819. Florence, their mother, went to work as a housemaid at Stanford Hall in Lutterworth, Leicestershire for Sir Robert Luxford, a revered MP. She fell in love with his profligate son, Thomas, and fell pregnant to him but Thomas denied all responsibility. Florence left her employment and travelled to Bedford where she found a new job working in a boarding house. Here her twins were born. Sir Robert, the twins’ grandfather, eventually found where they were living and discretely took over their care.
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An epic story of life and death amid the turbulent years of the Victorian gold rush.
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Adam, recently widowed and suffering from melancholia, sets out on an overland journey from Sydney in 1847 with his two young sons. Still grieving on his arrival in Melbourne, he leaves the boys in the care of friends and embarks on a further quest to mend his heart.o:p>/o:p>/span>
p class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Finally returning to Melbourne, he begins working for Joey Gower as the manager of her new hotel at St Kilda. Joey and Adam first met years before and Joey is hopeful of r | |  | | Journey into Darkness
Kit Markham’s world turns upside down when Jack, the boy she always believed she would marry, turns out to be her half-brother. At sixteen, feisty and headstrong, she leaves her home in Melbourne and flees to England. The year is 1855.
She is determined to stay away long enough to regain control over her future and leave her feelings for Jack behind.
The Crimean War is drawing to a close in Europe and nurses are needed on the hospital ships bringing the wounded back to Britain. Kit volunteers and meets a young Canadian who was severely wounded outside Sebastopol. After caring for him she realises a calling to train as a doctor and travels to America.
As a young woman seeking a place in a man’s world, she encounters both opposition and setbacks to her plan and must draw on her strength and resilience to survive. Ultimately she must decide what it is that will grant her the fulfilment she seeks and make her truly happy.
Kit Markham, born into an affluent family in Melbourne in 1840, decides to leave her family and all she holds dear in order to put distance between herself and Jack. Strong enough to break away from him, her childhood sweetheart and recently discovered half-brother, she takes a fast clipper to England.
p class="MsoNormal">span lang="EN-GB">Kit knows she must stay away until such time as she can accept Jack only as a brother and is prepared to do this for as long as it takes.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> /span>In London she answers a call for help, volunteering to work | |  | | The Weif
The Weif tells the story of Lizzie Darling, a young Irish lass banished from her family and homeland at the age of fifteen for a violent act. However her wish for a peaceful life is shattered when she finds she must once again resort to violence in order to survive.
span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Weif/span>/b>span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> tells the story of Lizzie Darling, a young Irish lass banished from her family and homeland at the age of fifteen for a violent act. Surviving the long voyage to Van Diemens Land with the help of Bella, a loud and likeable natural leader, she finds her feet in Hobart Town with the genial Fletcher family. Working as a nurserymaid, she befriends the family t | |  | | Winfale Park
Told from multiple character perspectives, Winfale Park is a personal and emotional home-grown drama about a group of strangers linked only by a surname, who come to remember the meaning of family and why they should do whatever it takes to stay together.
p class="MsoNormal">Penny Taylor, from London’s East End, finds herself part of the struggling Hapless family, living in a caravan park in the Illawarra on the south coast of New South Wales. She is kept busy with three young children, two of whom belong to Dudley Hapless, her present partner and a professional basketball player with the Hawks.o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">Dudley has four brothers, Dick, Rob, Bill and Bruce, and a younger sister named Rosie. Dick is a motor mechanic who seemingly cares only about cars and motor racing, Bill is working in Sydney as an architect a |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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