Four respectable ladies seek the meaning of wife
Toner, Barbara, 1948-2019
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Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there are many ways to be a wife,' the vicar informs the town ... It's 1930, and as the Depression overtakes rural New South Wales, what it means to be a wife tests the four respectable ladies of Prospect to their very limit. Louisa Worthington fled to the city ten years ago, pregnant, poor and under a cloud of scandal. Now she's back - blonde and brazen - with her heart set on the married son of the town's mayor. Adelaide Nightingale, newly widowed and starved of romance, yearns for adoration, security and a version of herself defined by beauty not business. Maggie Albright dreams of empire building, but is hamstrung by her over-cautious husband, who grows less handsome by the day. Then there's Pearl Fletcher, happily married to Joe, the district's most successful sheep farmer, but protecting a secret that could tear their family apart. And hovering in the town's shadows is a ghost from their past. A man newly released from jail ruthlessly bent on exploiting the ladies' hopes and fears to get what he wants. And what he wants is Louisa...
Main title:
Four respectable ladies seek the meaning of wife / Barbara Toner.
Author:
Toner, Barbara, 1948-, author
Imprint:
North Sydney, NSW : Bantam, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
337 pages : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780143787570 (pbk)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia -- New South Wales -- FictionFemale friendship -- FictionNineteen thirties -- FictionMarried women -- FictionEx-convicts -- FictionCountry life -- FictionSecrecy -- FictionMarriage -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- FictionNew South Wales -- History -- FictionAustralian fictionHistorical fictionDomestic fiction
BRN:
353204