When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure. It's a season marked not only by the sparsity of whales and the vagaries of weather, but also by the arrival of John Beck, an itinerant whaleman with a murky past, on whom Mary promptly develops an all-consuming crush. But hers is not the only romance to blossom amidst the blubber ...
| ISBN: | 9780349006628 |
| Publication date: | 4th February 2016 |
| Author: | Shirley Barrett |
| Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure. It's a season marked not only by the sparsity of whales and the vagaries of weather, but also by the arrival of John Beck, an itinerant whaleman with a murky past, on whom Mary promptly develops an all-consuming crush. But hers is not the only romance to blossom amidst the blubber ...
Rush Oh! features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Rush Oh! is available in Paperback, Hardback
Rush Oh! was written by Shirley Barrett and published by Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
