City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Land of golden wattle, J.H. Fletcher

eng

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novels

Land of golden wattle

J.H. Fletcher

1826, Van Diemen's Land. When her father dies in a duel, seventeen year old Emma Tregellas is left with limited funds and at the mercy of her odious guardian. Faced with the prospect of being forced into marriage with a man she detests, she is able to escape to faraway Van Diemen's Land where she seeks sanctuary with her wealthy uncle Barnsley Tregellas. 1982, Tasmania. The union of Bec Hampton and Jonathan, heir to the wealthy Penrose estate, brought promise of reconciliation to two warring sides of the same family: a dynasty that had its foundations laid by Emma Tregellas and Ephraim Dark nearly a hundred years earlier. Defying opposition from Jonathan's formidable grandmother, Bec had gained control of Derwent, the agricultural empire that the family had built from the early days of white settlement. Now eighty-five, Bec's wish is that her granddaughter, Tamara, should inherit the property but Giles, her dissolute son, has other ideas. Will Bec and Tamara succeed in defeating Giles' plans or will control of Derwent pass irrevocably out of the family? Spanning seven generations of an often-divided family, this book includes many of the traumatic events of Australia's history: the early days of white settlement, the gold rush, the cataclysm of two world wars and the great depression

adult