Fortunes Son, Jennifer Scoullar
Fortunes Son, Jennifer Scoullar
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Fortune's Son

Author: Jennifer Scoullar

Narrator: Nicholas Osmond

Unabridged: 12 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands.
Luke escapes, finding sanctuary with a local philanthropist, Daniel Campbell, and starting a forbidden love affair with Daniel’s daughter, Belle. But when Luke is betrayed, he must flee or be hanged.
With all seeming lost, Luke sails to South Africa to start afresh. Yet he remains haunted by the past, and by Belle, the woman he can’t forget. When he returns to seek revenge and reclaim his life, his actions will have shattering consequences – for the innocent as well as the guilty.

Reviews

Set in Tasmania in the late 1800’s the first chapter throws the reader straight into the inequality and injustices of class during that time. The story follows Luke Tyler from the age of 14 when he is thrown in prison after defending his sister’s honour, then his subsequent escape and, for a time, li......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Luke Tyler had the world at his feet, but that was all about to change the day he defends his sister from the Sir Henry Abbot. He now has fifteen years of hard labor ahead of him on a prison farm in Tasmania remote highlands. Luke does what he has to do to get through each day in prison, but it's not......more

Goodreads review by Dale

In the late 1880s, fourteen year old Luke Tyler attacks Sir Henry Abbott for raping Luke’s sister Rebecca. But the truth never comes out. Luke is sentenced to fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania. He experiences all the pain and hardship that ensues, until eventually he finds a way......more

*[URL not allowed] What a majestic cover and novel! You can feel the serenity, sparseness and pure wilderness of Tasmania as soon as you slip between the pages of this magnificent Australian saga. Environmentalist and talented storyteller Jennifer Scoullar makes her historical fic......more