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Summer at Mount Hope, Rosalie Ham

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Summer at Mount Hope

Rosalie Ham

Rural Australia, 1894: Phoeba Crupp lives with her squabbling parents and younger sister Lilith on a small farm. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard, a decision her mother bitterly resents. But Phoeba has loved it there since the day they arrived and she met Hadley and Henrietta Pearson, a brother and sister from a neighbouring farm who instantly became her closest friends. At their mother's urging, Lilith throws herself into trying to find a husband, but Phoeba resists until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money. As Phoeba awakens to the realities surrounding her, she comes to realise that the friendship of those near to her may count for more than she could ever have imagined