Pearl in a Cage [Woody Creek Novel 1]  by Joy Dettman
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Pearl in a Cage [Woody Creek Novel 1] by Joy Dettman

SKU TBM9781405039574
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ISBN: 9781405039574
Shelf No: 003117
Author: Joy Dettman
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2009
Format: Paperback
Volume: 1
Pages: 576 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Cost: 1.00
Period: 20th Century
Location: Bunbury

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to edges and corners. Faint mark on right foredge. Previous owner has stamped inside page.

On a balmy midsummer evening in 1923, a young woman – foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant – is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives. When no relatives come forth to claim the infant, Gertrude's daughter Amber – who has recently lost a son in childbirth – and her husband Norman take the child in.

In the ensuing weeks, Norman becomes convinced that God has sent the baby to their door, and in an act of reckless compassion and lonely desperation, he names the baby Jennifer and registers her in place of his son.

Loved by some but scorned by more, including her stepmother and sister, Jenny survives her childhood and grows into an exquisite and talented young woman. But who were her parents?

Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysterious heart, Pearl in a Cage is the unputdownable new novel by one of our most talented storytellers. (back cover)

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