Book description
'Fast-moving and immensely readable ... a page turner from start to
finish' Maeve BinchyAlexander Kinross is remembered in his native
Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he
writes from Australia to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is
now a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult
voyage, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and
discovers that he frightens and repels her. And, isolated in Alexander's
great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband
to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his
mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, still plays a
part - Colleen McCullough is the bestselling author of the
record-breaking international bestseller The Thorn Birds as well as ten
other novels. She lives on Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her
husband.
