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Gentleman's Garden by Catherine Jinks
In the early 1800s, Dorothea accompanies her officer husband, Charles, on his posting to the colonies of New South Wales. Endeavouring to make sense of her life in this hated place, she decides to cultivate a garden to remind her of "home". Her new strength, though, estranges her from her husband.In 1814, Dorothea Brande leaves the quiet harmony of her Devonshire home and accompanies her officer husband, Charles, to the colony of New South Wales. Here she endeavours to escape the harshness of the landscape - and the appalling brutality of common existence - by cultivating an English garden with the help of her convict manservant, Daniel. Together, in the creation of this garden, two bereft and disoriented people find a new strength and a special kind of refuge.But while Dorothea begins to adapt to the unforgiving environment, her husband is increasingly destroyed by it - until at last they stand on opposite sides of an unbridgeable gulf. Absorbing, deftly handled and beautifully written, The Gentleman's Gardenis a wonderful, romantic novel of a woman's difficult personal journey in a time of a developing Australian society.An intelligent romance and absorbing account of life in Australia in the 1880s. Australian Women s Weekly |
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| Author(s) : Catherine Jinks | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 1741141435 | ISBN-13 : 9781741141436 |
| RRP : £6.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : Australia
Publication Date : 01/11/2003
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page Length : 444mm
Page Size : 196mm