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Scotch at The Rocks

ISBN-13: 9780645441550
Publisher: PACIFIC WANDERLAND
Imprint: PACIFIC WANDERLAND
By Sara Powter
Price: AUD $29.99
Stock: 14 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 16/11/2023
Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 139.00mm) 207 pages Weight: 274g
Categories: Historical fiction [FV]

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Google Preview: Scotch at The Rocks - Glasgow, Scotland, early 1800s to The Rocks, Sydney 1830s. Orphaned children Brodie Stewart and Heather Anderson live on Glasgow’s streets. Although hungry, somehow they survive and keep out of trouble. Heather finds a job and looks to be settled; things go pear-shaped for them both. Eventually, they marry by declaration, yet even that gets messed up, and they are both arrested soon after they make their vow. In 1838, they got transported to Sydney as convicts. Heather arrives within weeks of Brodie, and they are assigned close to each other. They are now living on the docklands in Sydney, called The Rocks. They now have to forge a new life halfway across the world from their homeland. Adventures abound, and Brodie gets press-ganged. While he’s away, Heather’s life changes and soon, she’s officially selling Scotch Whisky at a shop in The Rocks. You can take a Scot out of Scotland, but where did the Scotch come from?; Sara Powter was born on the NSW Central Coast. Her childhood was spent with her parents, mainly travelling up and down the East Coast of Australia, fishing, shell collecting and doing some of her education by Correspondence Schooling. With a passion for science, she worked as a Scientific Assistant in the Entomology Department for the Department of Agriculture. She married Stephen soon after leaving there, and they spent 30 years in Ministry in the Newcastle Anglican Diocese in NSW, only retiring at the end of 2020. When Covid 19 hit, time was available to pen some of the stories shed wanted to write for some time. Within twelve months, eight stories were finished, and ideas for more were on the way. These stem from her passion for Colonial Australia, her convict Ancestors, and the amazing countrys remarkable history! Sara wrote these as she wished to complete one of her mothers unfinished manuscripts. The series prequel, "Dancing to Her Own Tune,” is now completed and ties in Sheila Hunters Australian Trilogy with Saras Lockley series.
But… Watch for more!; * Clean Historical Austraian Fiction.
* Set in the days of illicit Rum imports in Colonial Sydney.; Google Preview content