Southern Ruby
By: Belinda Alexandra
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9780732296445; 9780732296629
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Australian fiction; Secrets de famille; Romans, nouvelles; Ouragan Katrina, 2005; Roman australien
Description: Forbidden love. Family secrets. A twist of fate. The stunning new generational saga from Belinda Alexandra, bestselling author of Tuscan Rose and White Gardenia. In New Orleans - the city of genteel old houses and ancient oak trees covered in Spanish moss, of seductive night life, of Creole culture, voodoo and jazz - two women separated by time and tragedy will find each other at last. Amanda, orphaned as a child and suffering the loss of her beloved grandmother, has left Sydney in search of a family she never knew. Ruby, constrained by the expectations of society and class, is carrying a lifetime of secrets. Amanda's arrival sparks revelations long buried: a double life, a forbidden love, and a loss that cannot be forgotten. Southern Ruby is a sweeping story of love, passion, family and honour. Alternating in time between the 1950s and the eve of Hurricane Katrina, it is also a tribute to a city heady with mystery, music, and superstition, which has borne the tumults of race and class and the fury of nature, but has never given up hope.
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