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Forbidden love. Family secrets. A twist of fate. The stunning new generational saga from Belinda Alexandra, best-selling author of Tuscan Rose and White Gardenia.

In New Orleans - the city of genteel old houses covered in Spanish moss, of seductive nightlife, of Creole, 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 music, drama, history and superstition which has borne the tumults of race and class and the fury of nature but has never given up hope.

©2014 Belinda Alexandra (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Women's Fiction

Critic reviews

"Filled with glamour, heartbreak, drama and suspense." ( The Age)
"Intrigue, passion, betrayal - all the ingredients for a must-read novel." ( Woman's Day)
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Atmospheric with characters I would like to meet. Sad when this marvellous story ended.

Atmospheric with characters I would love to meet.

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Such an incredible an insightful trip through the history of New Orleans, while immersing the reader into the lives of the characters and their pasts. I would thoroughly recommend.

Another fantastic story by Belinda Alexandra

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