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Kitty

Paperback. Condición: Good. 352 pages. Text lightly tanned When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838 , Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a com promising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in sh reds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, und er the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Ag ainst the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading u p to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with R yan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to a n estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barrac ks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adven ture with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel, with pote ntial as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific o f the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists. Nº de ref. del artículo: 6926am

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