Title: The Ladies of Missalonghi
First published: May 1988
Description: Missy Wright's mother has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, the women live a quiet existence in genteel poverty. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.
Subjects: Women, Fiction, Large type books, Romance fiction, Man-woman relationships, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Australia, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: Australia, New South Wales
Time periods: 19th century