The Philosophers Daughters, Alison Booth
The Philosophers Daughters, Alison Booth
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The Philosopher's Daughters

Author: Alison Booth

Narrator: Rose Robinson

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2020


Synopsis

London, 1891: Harriet Cameron and her beloved sister Sarah have been brought up by their father, radical thinker James Cameron. But when adventurer Henry Vincent arrives on the scene, the sisters’ lives are changed forever. Sarah, the beauty of the family, marries Henry and embarks on a voyage to Australia. Harriet, intensely missing Sarah, must decide whether to help her father with his life’s work or to devote herself to painting. When James dies unexpectedly, Harriet follows Sarah to Australia, and afterwards into the outback, where she is alienated by the casual violence and great injustices of life there. Her rejuvenation begins with her friendship with an Aboriginal stockman and her growing love for the landscape. But this fragile happiness is soon threatened by murders at a nearby cattle station and a menacing station hand who is seeking revenge.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jülie ☼♄  on April 13, 2022

Australian historical fiction (and non fiction) is probably my most favourite reading genre, I just love immersing myself in a good [preferably lengthy] tale about the lives and times of our early settlers and their trials and tribulations…the good, the bad, and the ugly, whether it be fact or ficti......more

Goodreads review by Haley on March 31, 2020

[URL not allowed] Content/Trigger Warnings: Loss of a loved one [in a nonviolent matter], murder and mistreatment of people, specifically Aboriginals, and sexual assault and PTSD from it. The sisters were breathed to life within the first couple of pages. I easily fell in love w......more