![]() ![]() The youngest of six children, her childhood was spent exploring the local bush and playing music with her siblings and close neighbours. ![]() Mary-Anne O'Connor nee Best grew up in Wahroonga in the Bushland Shire of Hornsby-Kuringai, northern Sydney. ![]() For readers of Fiona McIntosh, Nicole Alexander and Natasha Lester. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty-stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever.Ī passionate tale of three sisters as they strive for freedom and independence and follow their hearts to unexpected places, from a master storyteller. When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections and have a say in the laws that govern them.īolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a fervent advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. meticulously researched, thought-provoking and utterly compelling.' - Bette r Reading 'Rich, transportive historical fiction with empowering, female characters. ![]()
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