Shirley Barrett

That's when I literally had thoughts of becoming a nun, because I thought, Well, I'm never going to have sex again. If I become a nun, I would at least have somewhere to live. It wasn't just the bad break-up that caused Eleanor's life to unravel. It was the cancer. And the demons that came with it. Freshly single and...

Engaging, original and full of curiosity and wit . . . I didn't want it to end. Asher Keddie Bursting with life . . . I was gripped from the first chapter. Debra Oswald A subversive, dark delight. Kat Stewart Barrett is a masterly world-builder. New York Times On a rainy night in 1871, an idealistic schoolmistress arrives on Cockatoo...