The White Oleander
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 1953
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
Copyright date: 1953
Description: Laurie Fielding had looked forward eagerly to living with her wealthy married sister on the island of Mondego, that tropic Paradise in the Indian Ocean, but she was cruelly disappointed by the chilliness of Stella’s welcome and the nature of the life Stella had marked out for her to live. She felt trapped and friendless. Her baby nephew was a comfort, but the only adult who seemed prepared to be kind to her was the Marquez de Velho Barreiro, the great man of the island - and his kindness was of a lordly, lofty sort that seemed to mark all too clearly the distance between them. But the attraction between a man and a women can bridge greater distances than that.