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Black Silk And Sympathy
Paperback Edition: 1
Deborah Challinor's latest, her 18th by my guesstimate, achieves that balance.
She sells big in Australia, and this niftily-titled story is mostly set there, during the 1860s. Tatty Caldwell of the coal-black hair has been doing pretty damn well in Sydney, after arriving alone and orphaned from London a few years before. Marriage and determination have brought mild prosperity, plus a precarious social position as the town's first female undertaker. Indeed, I said undertaker. But now she faces financial ruin and the hangman's noose. Yes, I said that as well.
There's never any shortage of drama in a Challinor plot, and our gutsy, bolshie young heroine, who's already shown her mettle by teaching literacy to 26 kids on an emigrant ship, endures an ugly union with Titus of the ''subtle persuasion'' business techniques that include blackmail and probable homicide.
Pages : 384
Publisher : Harper Collins
Publication date : 2024-03-27
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, Contemporary, NZ Fiction, Historical Fiction