Daughter Of Fortune

The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with thismagnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allendes best novel since The House of theSpirit... » 

The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with thismagnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allendes best novel since The House of theSpirits. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middleyears of the nineteenth century this magnificent romance tells the story ofEnglish foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot ofValparaiso. Eliza is a spirited sparky and ambitious romantic who becomesembroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capriciousJoaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California and the promise ofriches that rumours of gold strikes have brought him she can but follow afterhim... «