Scent of Cloves

Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Saved from Cromwell's Irish massacres by her nurse, saved from starvation by a Dutch sea captain... Her future and any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a 'glove marriage' to a man who was no more than a name. The Dutch East Indies, in the seventeenth century, were lands of legendary riches; of 'nutmeg princes;' of fortunes and family empires built on barbaric plantations and slavery. And amid the extravagance, the cruelty, the bizarre customs, perhaps the strangest events of all were the curious weddings that sent girls half-way around the world to husbands they had never seen. Julia, brave and stoical with a stormy and turbulent history behind her, took her 'glove'-of yellow, pearl-sewn silk-and began the journey to the island of Rua, to a land of seeming paradise where nothing was exactly as it appeared.

Author: Norah Lofts
Publisher: Tree Of Life Publishing
Published: 02/18/2013
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9781905806690
ISBN10: 1905806698
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General

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