Summer at Mount Hope

By Rosalie Ham

Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities, Englisch, Families, Farm life, Australian fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Romans, nouvelles, Roman australien, Mate selection, Roman, Familles, Fiction, History, Choix du conjoint, Australia, fiction

Description: It's 1894 and Phoeba Crupp, a young woman of spirit, is living with her eccentric family on a small vineyard in Victoria. They are surrounded by drought, danger and a rabbit plague, but Phoeba has friends and dreams and is content. Then a series of accidents brings the problems of money and men crashing into her life, and she is forced to confront the outside world and its threats to her freedom and innocence.