Angel
363 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2004
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ISBN: 9780007199754
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7 November 2005
Description
Paperback. Pub Date :2005-11-07 400 English HarperCollins UK The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter. passion and more than a little magic. . . 1960. Sydneys Kings Cross. Harriet Purcell leaves her conventional. respectable home and respectable. passionless boyfriend and moves into a rooming house owned by Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz. There. Harriet finds a life she relishes - excitement. adventure and passion. Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz makes a living from telling fortunes. and is mother to 4-year-old Flo. Beautiful little Flo is mute. and Harriet comes to love her as if Flo were her own - and must protect her at all costs when tragedy strikes. . . Angel is Colleen McCullough at her vintage best. drawing on her own experiences of living in the Cross in the 1960s and writing of a world that has long gone. Most of all. it is a. . .
