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Heather

Author : Chris Keniston
Publisher : Indie House Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heather written by Chris Keniston and published by Indie House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home is where the heart is... Brilliant cardiac surgeon Heather Preston has invested everything to achieve her dream of working at a world renowned hospital. When an unsettling call from her grandfather the retired general brings her back to her childhood lakeside home, she rediscovers the appeal of life in a small town, the joys of free-spirited youth—and Jake Harper. "Small town, big family, and mismatches that will steal your heart! Delightful!" Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author of the Dogfather Series. More on Hart Land Lakeside Inn: Come and stay in one of the quaint and cozy cottages at Hart Land—but be warned, once you meet the family and delightful cast of characters, you may never want to leave. Fiona Hart is the devoted matriarch. Elegant, wise, and arts patron, but despite all her efforts, she has yet to find her own artistic outlet. Lucy isn’t just a housekeeper, she’s part of the family. She also fancies herself a real life Dolly Levy, except she’s much better at cooking up trouble than the perfect match. Innkeeper and retired general Harold Hart believes in hard work, discipline, and whatever his beloved wife wants. Katie O’Leary runs the One Stop, makes the best Irish soda bread this side of the Blarney Stone, and no one is quite sure if it’s more than her baking that has the magic touch. Did we mention the Harts have nine granddaughters? Having grown up spending summers together on the lake, the cousins are as close as sisters—closer. Each woman knows there’s no place like Hart Land. They can always count on their grandfather’s gruff, their grandmother’s sage advise, Lucy’s fresh baked cookies, Katie’s inspiration, the calming scent of fresh air—and each other. Follow along with friends, family, neighbors, and guests as the Harts maneuver life’s curves, and just maybe find love along the way. As a Special Bonus Heather includes a treat from Lily's Recipe Box! Look for more books in the Hart Land Lakeside Inn series: Heather - book one Lily - book two Violet - book three Iris - book four Hyacinth - book five Rose - book six Callytrix - book seven Zinnia - book eight Poppy - book nine Fans of heartwarming romantic fiction, Pamela Kelley, Lily Mirren, RaeAnne Thayne, Emily March, Debbie Macomber, women's fiction, small town romance, series romance, hallmark movies, big family sagas, falling in love, sister books, matchmaker stories, Nora Roberts McGregor family, and Chris Keniston’s Farraday Country series will love Hart Land! Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, Liebesroman, Romantiek Hedendaags, kontemporêre romanse, Liebesroman

Iris Wall, Cracker Cowgirl

Author : Carol Rey
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455615254
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Iris Wall, Cracker Cowgirl written by Carol Rey and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of whip-crackin' cow-huntin' fun. Iris Wall was anything but an average girl. Average girls in 1948 were learning how to embroider and crochet. However, Iris was having the time of her life riding in rodeos, taming horses, and hunting cows with her daddy. The ultimate outdoor heroine, she was part of the Old Florida heritage that is synonymous with endurance, pride, and strength. A glossary of terms about cracker cowhunters is included in this biography.

Green Gold

Author : Alan Macfarlane
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448116201
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Green Gold written by Alan Macfarlane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from water, tea is more widely consumed than any other food or drink. Tens of billions of cups are drunk every day. How and why has tea conquered the world? Tea was the first global product. It altered life-styles, religions, etiquette and aesthetics. It raised nations and shattered empires. Economies were changed out of all recognition. Diseases were thwarted by the magical drink and cities founded on it. The industrial revolution was fuelled by tea, sealing the fate of the modern world. Green Gold is a remarkable detective story of how an East Himalayan camellia bush became the world's favourite drink. Discover how the tea plant came to be transplanted onto every continent and relive the stories of the men and women whose lives were transformed out of all recognition through contact with the deceptively innocuous green leaf.

Haunts of the Black Masseur

Author : Charles Sprawson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307823644
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Haunts of the Black Masseur written by Charles Sprawson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful work of cultural history, Charles Sprawson, himself an obsessional swimmer and fluent diver, explores the meaning that different cultures have attached to water, and the search for the springs of classical antiquity. In nineteenth-century England bathing was thought to be an instrument of social and moral reform, while in Germany and America swimming came to signify escape. For the Japanese the swimmer became an expression of samurai pride and nationalism. Sprawson gives is fascinating glimpses of the great swimming heroes: Byron leaping dramatically into the surf at Shelley’s beach funeral; Rupert Brooke swimming naked with Virginia Woolf, the dark water “smelling of mint and mud”; Hart Crane swallow-diving to his death in the Bay of Mexico; Edgar Allan Poe’s lone and mysterious river-swims; Leander, Webb, Weissmuller, and a host of others. Informed by the literature of Swinburne, Goethe, Scott Fitzgerald, and Yukio Mishima; the films of Riefenstahl and Vigo; the Hollywood “swimming musicals” of the 1930s; and delving in and out of Olympic history, Haunts of the Black Masseur is an enthralling assessment of man—body submerged, self-absorbed. It is quite simply the best celebration of swimming ever written, even as it explores aspects of culture in a heretofore unimagined way.

God in Kado Land

Author : H. A. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539540915
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book God in Kado Land written by H. A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful account of God's Spirit moving in Kado Land has been out of print for many years. But now, believing that the testimony of Jesus shared once again will become the spirit of prophecy to usher ina new revival, our mandate comes to republish it.H. A. Baker gives an account of what God did in Kado Land in the mountains of China through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.A native from a tribe ten days distance from the Adullam Mission received the Holy Spirit and then returned to his home. Through him a work of the Spirit started that spread to many other tribes in theregion. Several thousands were converted and forty churches were started. This mass movement was not the result of any usual missionary or other human effort. Jesus alone opened doors independent of any such human activity.

The GI Bride

Author : Iris Jones Simantel
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718178084
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The GI Bride written by Iris Jones Simantel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable memoir by GI Bride and bestselling author Iris Jones Simantel. Iris had escaped the Blitz but now lived in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine. And soon after she set sail for a new life in America. It was the 1950s, the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow, shared with Bob's parents. With a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger, Iris was wracked by homesickness. Trapped and desperately lonely, she had to make a fresh start, in a country where hope and opportunity thrived. In this dramatic sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller, Far From the East End, we follow young Iris Jones Simantel from London to New York, Chicago and Las Vegas in her struggle to find work, love and a sense of belonging in a foreign land. Iris Simantel is the acclaimed winner of the Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition, beating several thousand entries to publish her first memoir Far From the East End. Iris grew up in Dagenham and South Oxhey (with an evacuation to Wales in between) before marrying her GI husband Bob and moving to Chicago. She now resides in Devon where she enjoys writing as a pastime.

Images and Shadows

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373653
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Images and Shadows written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.

Mad Iris

Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783125442146
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Mad Iris written by Jeremy Strong and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Iris and the Tiger

Author : Leanne Hall
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922253456
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Iris and the Tiger written by Leanne Hall and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Iris has been sent to Spain on a mission: to make sure her elderly and unusual aunt, Ursula, leaves her fortune–and her sprawling estate–to Iris’s scheming parents. But from the moment Iris arrives at Bosque de Nubes, she realises something isn’t quite right. There is an odd feeling around the house, where time moves slowly and Iris’s eyes play tricks on her. While outside, in the wild and untamed forest, a mysterious animal moves through the shadows. Just what is Aunt Ursula hiding? But when Iris discovers a painting named Iris and the Tiger, she sets out to uncover the animal’s real identity–putting her life in terrible danger. Leanne Hall is an author of novels for young adults including the Text Prize-winning This Is Shyness and its sequel Queen of the Night. Iris and the Tiger is her first work for younger readers. Leanne has had shorter pieces published in Meanjin, Age, Best Australian Stories and the anthology Growing Up Asian In Australia. Her work plays with the borders of reality and fantasy. Leanne has worked in the arts, educational publishing and as a bookseller, but her enduring passion is for youth literature. ‘The surrealist magic is the most refreshing element of the book: it’s a kind of magical realism that is unusual in children’s and YA fantasy...Iris and the Tiger will appeal to older primary and younger high-school readers who like magic and are, like Iris, bored by teen romances.’ Books+Publishing ‘Iris and the Tiger is its own piece of surrealist art. It’s inexplicably wondrous and confusing...It’s confusing if you try to explain it too much. But it resonates, and it offers you a glimpse into a new world. And it defies labels, and challenges preconceptions.’ CBCA Reading Time ‘This is a very special book...I love that younger readers get to experience the writing of Leanne Hall, and I especially love that Iris and the Tiger will also surprise and delight older readers alike.’ Alpha Reader ‘Iris and the Tiger has all the hallmarks of a classic children’s novel...A great adventure novel.’Readings ‘Full of surprises and unexpected turnings.’ Magpies ‘I absolutely loved Iris and the Tiger! Leanne Hall enchanted me with her tale of magic and mystery.’ My Best Friends Are Books ‘Leanne Hall’s charming adventure story for younger readers takes classic tropes of children’s literature and gives them a surprising twist.’ Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘A quirky, cleareyed enchantment. More like this, please!’ Kirkus ‘Enchanting...Bound to appeal to tweens glimpsing the excitement of growing up.’ Daily Telegraph ‘The writing flows so naturally that you are easily taken along on this journey with Iris...This is a book that just keeps giving.’ New Zealand Book Council ‘This is a wonderful story of finding your true self (and true friends) in a foreign land.’ Best Middle Fiction Books of 2016, Readings ‘Inspired by surrealist art, Leanne Hall’s book is full of wondrous details...This is magic realism translated for a middle primary audience.’ Best Books of 2016, Sydney Morning Herald ‘A stunning, surreal tale for younger readers.’ Favourite Feminist Reads of 2016, Feminist Writers Festival ‘Fantasy fans will delight in the wackiness, the surprising plot, and the family secrets revealed. Best of all is Iris’ growing confidence amid the chaos.’ Booklist ‘There are lots of twists in this book and I never knew what was going to happen next...Recommended to anyone who likes magical adventure stories.’ Kookie Magazine

Five Lives on the Earth. Souls' Evolution. Volume 1

Author : Boriele Sim
Publisher : Бориэль Сим / Boriele Sim
ISBN 13 : 9659119275
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Five Lives on the Earth. Souls' Evolution. Volume 1 written by Boriele Sim and published by Бориэль Сим / Boriele Sim. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If humans really have a highly developed mind, and they are guided by a common sense relative to the creatures, why history of mankind looks as a mad delirium? Do you know why? People who are we? What awaits us? Why you are on this planet now an why so many suffering here? Do you believe the All-Seeing really exists as well as His blessings and punishments? Or your sins will decay with the body under the coffin lid? Can you admit that your soul is deathless, and previously it animated bodies of humans and creatures not neccessarily monkeys? What do you think about those who first incarnated in human form and have the same free will and rights as you? Isn't that dangerous? Do you know for what purpose the Creator has chosen for Himself people, and why the eternal Chosen People eternally suffered from enemies? If it's not quite known to you and you are interested to clarify who are you, why are you here, what will happen with you, and what determines the future of mankind, then this book is definitely for you. Following after the thoughts of the main character, a young American physicist, and listening to his conversations with omniscient old man, you will slightly open the amazing projections of the Supreme Truth, which were ignored, hided and distored by the interested power for about 3300 years up to nowadays. The Original Source will answer your major life questions. Why don't get knowledge from the Source? Moreover, without risk, and for a great success in the eternal life!

Iris Origo

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749016612
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Iris Origo written by Caroline Moorehead and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remain widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy where she became part of the colourful and privileged Anglo-Florentine set that included Edith Wharton, Harold Acton and the Berensons. When Iris married Antonio Origo, they bought and revived La Foce, a derelict stretch of the beautiful Val d'Orcia valley in Tuscany and created an estate that thrives to this day. During World War II they sided firmly with the Allies, taking considerable risks in protecting children and sheltering partisans and Iris's diary from that time, War in Val d'Orcia, is now considered a modern classic. Caroline Moorehead has drawn on many previously unpublished letters, diaries, and papers to write the definitive biography of a very remarkable woman.

Visions Beyond the Veil

Author : H. A. Baker
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1603742069
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Visions Beyond the Veil written by H. A. Baker and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beggars…Outcasts…Homeless Such were the forgotten, uneducated children in China when the Spirit of God fell upon their humble orphanage, the Adullam Home. The boys spent days in powerful meetings, praying and praising God. Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they prophesied, saw visions, and discovered: Angels…how they operate and protect us Unbelievers…and their fate Heavenly occupations…what our jobs will be Paradise…revealed through the eyes of children The throne of God…experiencing true worship Death…what happens when we die Demons…and their evil works This mighty outpouring was a fulfillment of God’s promise: “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions.” Acts 2:17

Uprooted

Author : Page Dickey
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1643260510
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Uprooted written by Page Dickey and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.” —The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill, she left a landscape she had spent thirty-four years making, nurturing, and loving. She found her next chapter in northwestern Connecticut, on 17 acres of rolling fields and woodland around a former Methodist church. In Uprooted, Dickey reflects on this transition and on what it means for a gardener to start again. In these pages, follow her journey: searching for a new home, discovering the ins and outs of the landscape surrounding her new garden, establishing the garden, and learning how to be a different kind of gardener. The surprise at the heart of the book? Although Dickey was sad to leave her beloved garden, she found herself thrilled to begin a new garden in a wilder, larger landscape. Written with humor and elegance, Uprooted is an endearing story about transitions—and the satisfaction and joy that new horizons can bring.

Book of the Iris

Author : Richard Lynch
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429014393
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Book of the Iris written by Richard Lynch and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Lynch created this 1904 guide with two distinct aims: to present all available information on the culture of irises and to provide an easy and efficient means for the verification of plant names.

The Merchant of Prato

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 168137420X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato written by Iris Origo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past. “For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world. Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.

Where the Irises Bloom

Author : Will Lowrey
Publisher : Lomack Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781732939943
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Where the Irises Bloom written by Will Lowrey and published by Lomack Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the big city, everyone has a story - even the lost souls. Life on the streets can be tough for a kitten. Between the neighborhood hooligans, trains and traffic whizzing past, unforgiving weather, and the grumpy raccoons competing over scraps of food in the garbage cans, every day is a struggle to survive. Although lost and afraid among the tall, glimmering buildings and their shadowy alleyways below, Fern soon discovers she's not alone. She's seen him before, huddled from the cold by the old tavern. Mother taught her to be wary of the people, but when she takes a chance on him, she learns he has a story, too. Together, they just might save each other. From the author of the acclaimed novel Chasing the Blue Sky comes the compelling, poignant tale of the unusual bond between a stray kitten and a homeless man.

Dressed By Iris

Author : Mary-Anne O'Connor
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1867225468
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Dressed By Iris written by Mary-Anne O'Connor and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid, romantic story of Sydney in the 1930s Depression - the heartbreak, the glamour, the dark underbelly, the struggle towards a better day - and one young woman's dream of designing her way from rags to riches. For readers of Natasha Lester and Victoria Purman. 1930: Seventeen-year-old Iris Mitchell dreams of designing clothes, but there's little spare cash for fashion in their shanty-town home. The gift of a single purple ribbon from would-be boyfriend John Tucker, however, creates an unexpected opportunity ... and when Iris's brother Jim joins the Sydney Harbour Bridge construction, the large, dirt-poor but loving Mitchell family can move to the city. Iris will be torn away from John, but he's Protestant and she's Catholic, taboo in their world, so perhaps it wasn't meant to be ... 1932: By day, Iris scrubs the floors at Caron's, an upmarket department store. By night, she designs and sews in her family's tiny, crowded house. Friendship with gorgeous, livewire Natasha, one of Caron's models, allows Iris to show her skills, but will her talent be acknowledged ... or exploited? When John reappears, passions are reignited, and Iris must face not only their religious divide, but the apparent impossibility of having both marriage and a career. Meanwhile, the Mitchells must navigate life in a city riven by corruption, dirty politics and gambling. Will their faith, determination and deep family bond save them when tragedy and adversity strike? In 1930s Sydney, the stakes have never been higher ... PRAISE 'A richly woven tale' - Australian Women's Weekly 'Vivid prose brings 1930s Sydney to life in an extraordinary way' - Internationally bestselling author Kelly Rimmer