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The Unforgiving City Kindle Edition
'If you love Australian history combined with a gripping saga, The Unforgiving City is an excellent read.' - The Weekly Times
Colonial Sydney in the final weeks of the nineteenth century: a city striving for union and nationhood but dogged by divisions so deep they threaten to derail, not just the Federation, but the colony itself. There are chasms opening too when a clandestine note reaches the wrong hands in the well-to-do household of aspiring politician Alasdair Dunlevy and his wife Eleanor. Below stairs, their maid Alice faces a desperate situation with her wayward sister.
Despite sharing a house, Eleanor, Alice and Alasdair are each alone in their torment and must each find some solution, but at what cost to themselves and those they love? Evocative, immediate and involving, this is the sweeping story of three people, their passions and ambitions, and the far-flung ripples their choices will cause.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication dateSeptember 3, 2019
- File size1109 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B07SB4JV58
- Publisher : Allen & Unwin (September 3, 2019)
- Publication date : September 3, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 1109 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 421 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,933,453 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #867 in Historical Australian & Oceanian Fiction
- #11,131 in Historical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Fiction
- #228,857 in Historical Fiction (Books)
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- VonnieReviewed in Australia on October 21, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Sydney Story
Having lived in Sydney and spent much of my childhood there I found it an interesting read about the early days in those inner city areas I know well ! And of course pre Federation era , looking where to set the Capital! Also the hardship suffered by many and such distinctive class differences!