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'Grisly, addictive fun . . . I devoured it in 24 hours' – Emilia Hart, author of Weyward In deepest winter, beware the coldest hearts . . . London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised...

Picked as one of Stylist magazine's 'Fiction Books You Can't Miss' and longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award. Fortune favours the brave in Lizzie Pook's mesmerising and fiercely feminist historical novel, Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter. 'Immersive storytelling, a rollicking mystery and...

London, 1850. Maude Horton knows something isn’t right. Her sister Constance embarked on a reckless adventure, running away from the room she shared with Maude, disguising herself as a boy on board a ship going to the Arctic, and then never came home. ‘A tragic accident’, they said, but...

Western Australia, 1886 As the pearling ships return to Bannin Bay after a long diving season, twenty-year-old Eliza Brightwell nervously awaits the arrival of her father's boat. But when his lugger finally limps in, it brings with it a tale of tragedy: Charles Brightwell, master pearler, has...

London, 1850. Constance Horton has disappeared. Maude, her older sister, knows only that Constance abandoned the apothecary they call home, and, disguised as a boy, boarded a ship bound for the Arctic. She never returned. 'A tragic accident', the Admiralty called it. But Maude Horton knows...

1886 Bannin Bay, Westaustralien: Strände voller glänzender Perlen und Muscheln so groß wie Teller—hier wollen die Brightwells mit Tochter Eliza ihr Glück finden. Zehn Jahre später ist Charles Brightwell der erfolgreichste Perlenfischer der Küste. Eines Tages jedoch kehrt sein Boot ohne ihn zurück, Charles ist spurlos verschwunden. Eliza weigert sich zu glauben, dass ihr Vater tot ist und forscht entschieden nach. Doch in einer Stadt voller Korruption, Vorverurteilung und Erpressung lernt sie schnell: Die Wahrheit wird mehr kosten als Perlen.

From the author of The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives and Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge, a “sensitive and compassionate” (The New York Times Book Review) feminist adventure story and historical mystery set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving industry in 19th-century...

A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned in this “engrossing historical mystery” (The Washington Post) from the author of The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives and Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter...