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Loading... The Touch (2003)by Colleen McCullough
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I was so disappointed in the ending because I felt it was inconsistent with the things McCullough had already told me about Alexander Kinross. She is a good writer, who draws you into her plots and characters, and I enjoyed the book while I was reading it...until the end. I keep hoping she will thrill me with another "Thorn Birds" but I fear that is not ever going to happen. I LOVED The Thron Birds and I loved this one as well. I seem to end up reading her romance novels right when my life is rolling with romance -- be that the beginning or end. This seems to offer me a unique perspective -- one where I can truly relate to the characters. I think that's why I loved this book... I can't say if the ending seemed hastily written. I was so in love with the story and characters by then. I LOVE how it ends clearly. So good!! no reviews | add a review
Scottish-born Alexander Kinross writes home from the gold fields of 1860s Sydney for a bride and marries young cousin Elizabeth, who struggles with Alexander's rowdy ex-madam mistress and illegitimate son. No library descriptions found. |
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At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scottish relatives quickly realize that he has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with.
Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, the sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers to her dismay that he frightens and repels her. Offered no choice, she marries him and is whisked at once across a wild, uninhabited countryside to Alexander's own town, named Kinross after himself. In the crags above it lies the world's richest gold mine.(...)