An Independent Woman: Book One of the Redwood Series (1) - Softcover

Loveday, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0646514318 ISBN 13: 9780646514314

Verlag: Kathleen Loveday, 2013

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Páginas:274Géneros:12:FR:Romance12:FRD:Adult&contemporaryromance12:JFFE3:DomesticviolenceSinopsis:TheRedwoodSeriesisasweepingsagaofromanceandadventure,spanningmanydecadesinatimewhenwomenhavefewchoicesandlife,andlovearenoteasy.Itisoftenaspur-of-the-momentdecisionthatcanbecomeaturningpointinlife.SoitisforKittyMorland,ayoungwomaninLondonin1878.Cheatedofherbirthrightandcondemnedtoasoul-destroyingexistence,Kittyyieldstotemptationonefatefuldayandcommitsadesperate,criminalact.Realisationofitspossibleterrifyingconsequencesforceshertofleetotheothersideoftheworld,toAustralia,takingherwidowedmother,Bella,withher.FearfulthatherpastwillcatchupwithhershemarriesWilliam,anEnglisharistocrat,andmovesfromSydneytoRedwoodsinBulahdelah,aremoteloggingareainthemidnorthofNewSouthWales&ndash,a ,placeofred-cedarforests,wildrivers,andtheisolationofapioneervillage.Kittyneedsallhercourageanddeterminationtosurvivealovelessmarriage,dominatedbyahusbandwithadarksidetohischaracter.SherealisesalltoolatethatthepassionshefeelsforRufeCavanagh,acharismaticandentrepreneurialcolonial,isreciprocated ,Kittyfinallyhasachanceforloveandhappinessbut,tornbetweenloveandduty,shemustmakeadifficultdecisionthatwillaffectthelivesofothers._,

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I do not usually read historical romances, but after reading Kate Loveday’s contemporary Australian romance, Inheritance, I wanted to know if her other works was as good. I think there is there is a richness to her writing. She may be Australia’s answer to Barbara Taylor Bradford. Jeannie Jackson - Reviewer 

This is a story of a woman pitted against the ruthless powers of the Victorian age - a legal system that denied a woman's right to her own property if she married and a social structure that expected a woman to submit to even the most bullying of husbands. But Kitty is not the sort of woman to easily admit defeat. With great courage and intelligence, she carves out a new life for herself, though not without tragedy. In the end, she achieves a bitter sweet triumph that will both surprise and satisfy the reader.

Review by Jacqueline Winn Australian Author

It’s a story that is set in the earlier part of Australia’s history and although the formality is there, with people addressing each other as ‘Miss Morland’ or ‘Mr Cavanagh’ the story is totally absorbing.

Kate Loveday writes beautifully, in a free-flowing, easy to read style. Her writing is pleasantly descriptive and the reader can see the setting of each scene as easily as if they were in the book themselves. Sarah Cook, Reviewer & Freelance Editor

Reseña del editor:

The Redwood Series is a sweeping saga of romance and adventure, spanning many decades in a time when women have few choices and life, and love are not easy.

It is often a spur-of-the-moment decision that can become a turning point in life.

So it is for Kitty Morland, a young woman in London in 1878.

Cheated of her birthright and condemned to a soul-destroying existence, Kitty yields to temptation one fateful day and commits a desperate, criminal act. Realisation of its possible terrifying consequences forces her to flee to the other side of the world, to Australia, taking her widowed mother, Bella, with her.
Fearful that her past will catch up with her she marries William, an English aristocrat, and moves from Sydney to Redwoods in Bulahdelah, a remote logging area in the mid north of New South Wales – a  place of red-cedar forests, wild rivers, and the isolation of a pioneer village.

Kitty needs all her courage and determination to survive a loveless marriage, dominated by a husband with a dark side to his character. She realises all too late that the passion she feels for Rufe Cavanagh, a charismatic and entrepreneurial colonial, is reciprocated

 Kitty finally has a chance for love and happiness but, torn between love and duty, she must make a difficult decision that will affect the lives of others.

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• Verlag: Kathleen Loveday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0646514318
• ISBN 13: 9780646514314
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278