The Pearlers Wife, Roxane Dhand
The Pearlers Wife, Roxane Dhand
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The Pearler's Wife

Author: Roxane Dhand

Narrator: Madeleine Hyland

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/22/2018

Synopsis

A distant land. A dangerous husband. A forbidden love. The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia’s far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a man she has never met. When Maisie arrives in her new home, she finds a stifling small town bound by Victorian morals. Shocked at her new husband’s callous behaviour towards her, she is increasingly drawn to William Cooper, a British diver she met on board ship. It soon becomes clear that secrets surround her husband, as turbulent as the waters that crash against the bay. Secrets that somehow link to her own family – and secrets that put Cooper and his fellow British divers in great danger… From the drawing rooms of London to the latticed verandas and gambling dens of Buccaneer Bay, is a sweeping, epic read, inspired by a lost moment in history.

About Roxane Dhand

Roxane's third novel, The Trouble With Tigers, is published in September 2022, a compulsive and immersive historical read full of romance and adventure set in 20th Century India. Born in Kent, Roxane entertained her sisters with imaginative stories from an early age. After graduating with degrees in English and French from London University she began her professional life in Switzerland. It was while living there that she started to put her stories on paper. Returning to England, marriage, work and a house move to Hampshire derailed the writing for several years until she picked up her pen once more in 2013.Her best selling debut novel, The Pearler's Wife was published by Harper Impulse in 2018, and in Australia with Penguin Random House. Her second novel, The Orphan of Good Hope was published in 2020, a riveting seventeenth-century romance that sweeps the reader from Amsterdam to a frontier town on the Cape of Good Hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on February 26, 2018

An assured debut by author Roxane Dhand, The Pearler’s Wife is a sweeping romance set in a little-known corner of Australian history, the pearling industry in the far north of Western Australia. The heroine, nineteen-year-old Maisie, is sent to Australia from England to marry a man she has never met......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on March 18, 2018

I’ve read quite a few novels of late that have widened the retelling of Australia’s history to incorporate indigenous and immigrant experiences, and instead of glossing over our white Australia past, they’ve shone a spotlight onto it, warts and all. Fiction plays an important part in telling the sto......more

Goodreads review by Thebooktrail on April 05, 2018

Visit the locations in the novel What a fascinating read! It’s all based around a history I knew little about – the birth and development of the pearl industry in Australia. This was a tough time as the natives and Asian workers who had been the best divers for years, were replaced by the white men......more

Goodreads review by Jenks on August 30, 2018

A very slow start. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to stick with this novel because the first quarter of the book was so flat and boring. Once I was halfway things picked up - the characters cane to life , the main character grew her backbone. I enjoyed the twists and small plot mysteries throughout I felt......more

Goodreads review by Vilma on June 10, 2024

Grazi, liudna istorija... Labai gyvenimiska, ir atitinkanti aprasomo laikmecio situacija.........more

Quotes

‘An assured debut novel … a sweeping romance set in a little-known corner of Australian history … a story full of tension, drama and romance’Kate Forsyth, author of Bitter Greens

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