The river sings
Price, Sandra Leigh2017
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London, 1824: Eglantine has always had an eye for the shine. Her mysteriously prosperous father, Mr Amberline Stark, is a man of great expectations, who makes picking pockets a delightful parlour game which they play in their fine house by the Thames. Eglantine's life before her arrival at the house remains a mystery, her memories wrapped up in a small doll she keeps close to her, and with it the fragmentary recollections of her mother. But when Amberline is caught and transported as a thief to the penal colony of Australia, Eglantine has to fend for herself using her only skill. Reluctantly, the thief's daughter becomes a thief, until a chance meeting gives her a window on a new way of being, and the opportunity to strike out into a new and untarnished world. Birth and death, love and sadness, love knots and cut ties, quicksilver and shine, old worlds and new beginnings.
Main title:
The river sings / Sandra Leigh Price.
Author:
Price, Sandra Leigh, author
Imprint:
London : Fourth Estate, 2017.
Collation:
311 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781460750018 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'2
Language:
English
BRN:
3364960