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The sea captain's wife
French, Jackie2024
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When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the naked, half-drowned man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's also obsessed by a 'ghost ship' carrying golden cargo. On Big Henry Island women make the decisions and knit the patterns that mark a man as their own. But Big Henry is also a volcano, and threatening to erupt. Yet when Mair agrees to accompany Michael home, she finds that the Australian comfort he promised has a danger just as real: a social system that tries to keep women confined to small roles at the edges of men's lives. And as Michael hunts for the 'Ghost' in his revolutionary new steamship, a string of mysterious deaths upends Mair's new life in Sydney. Who is committing these murders, and why is Mair the only one who realises what is happening?
Main title:
The sea captain's wife / Jackie French.
Author:
French, Jackie, author
Imprint:
Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HQ Fiction, 2024.©2024
Collation:
468 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97818672434899781867243489
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
553225
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | FREN | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 24 Jul 2024) |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - Crime | FREN | Onloan - Due: 22 Aug 2024 |