Dreamy Grace, who’s obsessed with steam locomotives, marries fellow train enthusiast Bear. (Edda’s dream of medical school has been dashed, thanks to Maude.) This rambling, episodic tome follows the women into their 30s. Largely to escape Maude, the twins, upon reaching young womanhood, train as nurses at the local hospital.
Stunning Kitty is her mother's favorite, which poisons Maude's relationship with all four girls. Edda and Grace are the progeny of the reverend’s first wife, who dies in childbirth Kitty and Heather, nicknamed Tufts, are born to Maude, his redoubtable second wife.
In the fictional town of Corunda, New South Wales, two sets of twins are born to Anglican rector Thomas Latimer. (Aug.Four sisters are McCullough’s avatars of women’s progress in Depression-era Australia.
Agent: Michael Carlisle, Inkwell Management. McCullough’s richly drawn characters grab hold of the heartstrings from the beginning of their journey through early-20th-century Australia, and prove that, even when choices are not in wide supply, happiness is attainable-even if, at times, it is bittersweet. No matter what befalls them, they remain fiercely loyal to each other. As each sister finds her path in life, though, one thing remains clear: family means everything to these women. Each finds love, of a sort, and tragedy is not in short supply-the Great Depression hits one sister’s husband is lost another’s is cast off miscarriages occur. The four leave their home in the small New South Wales town of Corunda, each with different goals: Grace wants to be a wife and mother Tufts wants independence, Kitty wants to be known for more than her beauty, and Edda longs to be a doctor. Since career options for women are sparse, the sisters enter nursing school, encouraged by their father, the Reverend Thomas Latimer. Edda and Grace are twins, as are Heather (dubbed Tufts) and Katherine, (called Kitty). In this sweeping historical saga, McCullough ( The Thorn Birds) explores the lives and loves of four sisters in 1920s Australia.
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