Book description
Bram Deagan dreams of bringing his family from Ireland to join him in
Australia, where he now runs a successful trading business. But when a
typhus epidemic strikes Ireland, it leaves the Deagan family decimated.
And, with other family members scattered round the world, it is left to
Maura Deagan to look after her orphaned nieces and nephew. Forced to
abandon her own ambitions, and unsure whether she is ready to become a
mother-figure to three young children, Maura recognises that their only
hope is to join Bram in far away Australia. So they set sail on the SS
Delta
, which will carry them there, via the newly opened Suez Canal. It is
only when a storm throws her and fellow passenger Hugh Beaufort together
that Maura realises this journey may also give her a chance to pursue a
dream she set aside long ago - to have a family of her own. That is,
until someone from Hugh's past threatens to jeopardise everything . . .
'This is a fascinating insight into a piece of Australia's history
that receives little attention.'
Anna Jacobs grew up in Lancashire and emigrated to
Australia, but still visits the UK regularly to see her family and do
research, something she loves. She is addicted to writing and figures
she'll have to live to be 120 at least to tell all the stories that
keep popping up in her imagination and nagging her to write them down.
She's also addicted to her own hero, to whom she's been happily
married for many years. She is the bestselling author of over sixty
novels and has been shortlisted for several awards. Pride of
Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award in
2006, and The Trader's Wife is on the shortlist for the 2012
award.
You can find out more on her website, www. annajacobs. com
or on Facebook www. facebook. com/pages/Anna-Jacobs/190765660967982.
