num_pages: 448
description: She was the banker's daughter, a highborn, golden beauty. He was a grocer's son, strong and proud, but fate had masked his strength and pride with a form that set him forever apart from other men. Compelling need drew them together, A bewitching fantasy encircled and sustained them. Then the Great Depression swept across Australia to impoverish the rich, humble the proud, and turn the poor into a stunned army of desperate vagrants and homeless vagabonds. Expelled from their enchated realm, brutally seperated, they each clutched a secret, a promise a dream of finding each other in a harsh world where only a perfect love like theirs could survive, overcome and triumph.
language: English
title: Swords and Crowns and Rings
titlecomplete: Swords and Crowns and Rings
genres: Family, Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Historical, Historical Fiction, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 441
places: Australia
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award
publisher: Dell