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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kitty (2006)di Deborah Challinor
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. First in the Kitty Series (I've already read the second and it was so good I've found the first!). It's 1838 and 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father has died unexpectedly leaving her and her mother impoverished. Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with a well-known rake (promises were made!), leaving her reputation in ruins. Luckily her missionary aunt and uncle are about to leave for New Zealand so her mother sends with them. They arrive in the Bay of Islands prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). Their settlement is just across the harbour from Kororareka, Hell-Hole of the Pacific. Whilst there, Kitty is drawn to a ships captain, Ryan Farrell. Events take a turn for the worse, and Kitty must flee the Bay of Islands, taking refuge in Sydney, Australia. A great read. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel, with potential as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.3Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Elizabethan 1558-1625Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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