ISBN The Touch book English Paperback 656 pages

Let
international bestselling author Colleen McCullough
sweep you away with this enthralling, evocative and emotional saga of one woman's quest to come to terms with a new life. If you like Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy, you'll love this!
'Fast-moving and immensely readable... Back to the open spaces, merciless climate and sheer pioneering stance of the magical THE THORN BIRDS, this book is a page turner from start to finish' -- Maeve Binchy
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'A powerful saga' --Mirror
'Absorbing' --Sunday Telegraph
'I could put this book down. I was consumed with it' -- ***** Reader review
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Alexander Kinross
is remembered in his native
Scotland
only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice. But when he writes from
Australia
to summon his bride, his relatives realize he is now a man to be reckoned with.
Arriving in
Sydney
after a difficult voyage, sixteen-year-old
Elizabeth Drummond
meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her.
Isolated in Alexander's great house, Elizabeth finds that marriage does not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life - nor his present one, in which his mistress, the sensuous, tough, outspoken
Ruby Costevan
, still plays a part...
Will she be able to forge a happy new life in this new world?