House of Longing (Paperback)

Tara Calaby

ISBN 10: 1922790281 / ISBN 13: 9781922790286

Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2023

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Paperback. Charlotte has always known she is different. Where other young women see their destiny in marriage and motherhood, the reclusive Charlotte wants only to work with her father in his stationery business; perhaps even run it herself one day. Then Flora Dalton bursts through the shop door and into Charlottes lifeand a new world of baffling desires and possibilities seems to open up to her.But Melbourne society of the 1890s is not built to embrace unorthodoxy. When tragedy strikes and Charlotte is unmoored by grief, she finds herself admitted to Kew Lunatic Asylum for her own safety.There she learns that women enter the big white house on the hill for many reasons, not all of them to do with lunacy. That her capacity for love, loyalty and friendship is greater than she had ever understood. And that it will take all of these thingsalong with an unexpected talent for guileto extract herself from the care of men and make her way back to her hearts desires.A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. House of Longing is the debut of a major talent. An irresistible sapphic historical romance from a dazzling new Australian talent Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: House of Longing (Paperback)
• Publisher: Text Publishing, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922790281
• ISBN 13: 9781922790286
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Charlotte has always known she is different. Where other young women see their destiny in marriage and motherhood, the reclusive Charlotte wants only to work with her father in his stationery business; perhaps even run it herself one day. Then Flora Dalton bursts through the shop door and into Charlotte’s life—and a new world of baffling desires and possibilities seems to open up to her.

But Melbourne society of the 1890s is not built to embrace unorthodoxy. When tragedy strikes and Charlotte is unmoored by grief, she finds herself admitted to Kew Lunatic Asylum ‘for her own safety’.

There she learns that women enter the big white house on the hill for many reasons, not all of them to do with lunacy. That her capacity for love, loyalty and friendship is greater than she had ever understood. And that it will take all of these things—along with an unexpected talent for guile—to extract herself from the care of men and make her way back to her heart’s desires.

A compulsively readable historical romance, House of Longing combines an effortless instinct for narrative with impeccable research, lightly worn. House of Longing is the debut of a major talent.