The Three Miss Allens

Name: The Three Miss Allens
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Victoria Purman
ISBN: 9781460747308

Author: Victoria Purman

Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic

Unabridged: 13 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/01/2023

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Three sisters, one secret and a question that stretches across generations...a compulsively readable historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author
How much of who we are is destiny and how much is chance?In 1934, the three Miss Allens - Ruby, Adeline and Clara - arrive in the seaside town of Remarkable Bay for their annual summer holiday. It's the last time they'll spend summer as a family. Adeline is engaged, Ruby is weighing up an offer, and Clara is just eighteen and about to start her life. But by summer's end, the lives they have known will change irrevocably and a mysterious secret will tear the family apart.Eighty-two years later, Ruby's great-granddaughter Roma Harris moves to the now sleepy Remarkable Bay, retreating from tragedy. Roma's distant cousin Addy arrives too, fleeing a life with too much drama. It's only when the women discover an old guest book that they start asking questions about the mysterious third Miss Allen. Who was she? Why has she disappeared from the family's history?If they solve this mystery from their past, could it change their futures?

About Victoria Purman

Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her last book The Radio Hour was an Australian bestseller, as were her previous novels. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter and has been a judge in the fiction category for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. To find out more, visit Victoria's website, victoriapurman.com.You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram (@victoriapurmanauthor).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda - on December 05, 2017

*[URL not allowed] Victoria Purman is best known for her fresh contemporary romance stories set in her home state of South Australia. Purman changes direction for her 2016 release, The Three Miss Allens. Although this story is set in South Australia, it is a melding of a historica......more

Goodreads review by Dale on January 06, 2017

The story starts in 2016 with Roma Harris who has bought a large old house in need of repair at Remarkable Bay, a small place on the coast of South Australia. She sees it as the start of a new life after the death of her husband three years earlier. I loved the setting and the name of the place, Rem......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 23, 2016

I actually would like to give this more than 5 stars and I have no idea how I'm going to write a spoilerless, objective review. The Three Miss Allens is a step outside the comfort zone of author Victoria Purman, it's like nothing she has written before and it is amazing. I love this story, I love the......more

Goodreads review by Nigelle-ann on November 10, 2016

Heartbreakingly delicious is how I would say reading this book was for me. I so want to run off and buy an old house and run a B n B. A story-line to die for and the characters as rich as the best dark chocolate and I cried, and I am not a crier in books. I so desperately wanted to finish it yet mad......more