Scent of Cloves
of Norah Lofts
Description
Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Saved from Cromwellâs Irish massacres by her nurse, saved from starvation by a Dutch sea captain⊠Her future and any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a âglove marriageâ to a man who was no more than a name. The Dutch East Indies, in the seventeenth century, were lands of legendary riches; of ânutmeg princes;â 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 âgloveââof yellow, pearl-sewn silkâand began the journey to the island of Rua, to a land of seeming paradise where nothing was exactly as it appeared.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 296 pages
- Publisher Fawcett
- Publication Date May 12th 1981
- First Publication 10/30/57
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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