A Disorderly Girl by Bruce Stewart
A Disorderly Girl by Bruce Stewart
A Disorderly Girl
by Bruce Stewart
Hutchinson, 1978 [First Edition], ISBN 0091350506, hardcover, dust-jacket
Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, faint finger prints on half title and title pages; Dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)
"Passionate, determined, fearless, Alice, Eliza Jane and Clare survive one tragedy after another, sustained by their inherited fortitude and desire to love. Alice, transported to the colony of New South Wales, serves her sentence and becomes a free woman; Eliza Jane, an unwilling partner in her husband's illegal slave-labour trading at the turn of the century, is forced to commit murder; Clare, a nurse during the Spanish Civil War, works as an undercover agent in Germany during the Second World War.
This is a brilliantly constructed novel tracing the lives and loves of three women, covering five generations of one family, moving between Europe and Australia, and spanning a century."