Book description
Cornwall, the 1870s. Emily Boyce, daughter of a pretentious parson,
incurs her father's wrath by falling in love with young Sam Hooper, a
copper miner on Bodmin Moor. So when the moorland mines fail, Emily's
father seizes the opportunity to ensure that Sam goes to seek a new
life in the copper mines of South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
Emily seems trapped into a lifetime of looking after her overbearing
father, but when he dies suddenly, she finds herself free to follow
the dictates of her heart. Her search for Sam takes her to South
Australia, first to the Copper Triangle, then to the vast and sparsely
populated outback of the magnificent Flinders Ranges and, finally, to
the beautiful Adelaide Hills.
In the meantime, Sam has met an ageing prospector who is to change
the course of the lives of the young couple from Cornwall...
E. V. Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy
before joining the Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia
and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become
a full-time award-winning writer.
