Scent of Cloves, Norah Lofts
Scent of Cloves, Norah Lofts
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Scent of Cloves

Author: Norah Lofts

Narrator: Gráinne Gillis

Unabridged: 10 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 12/01/2015


Synopsis

Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Her future and any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a “glove marriage” to a man who was no more than a name. The Dutch East Indies, in the seventeenth century, were the lands of legendary riches; of “nutmeg princes”; of fortunes built on barbaric plantations and slavery. And amid the extravagance, the cruelty, the bizarre customs, perhaps the strangest events of all were the curious weddings that sent girls half-way around the world to husbands they had never seen. Julia took her “glove” – of yellow, pearl-sewn silk – and began the journey to the island of Rua, to a land of seeming paradise where nothing was exactly as it appeared.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This second of the four volumes* which comprise the conclusion of the “The Four Musketeers” (The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, The Man in the Iron Mask) is perhaps the most significant, for it shows the reader, more clearly than the three others, how the meaning of h......more

Goodreads review by Dafne

Acquistato anni fa sull'onda emotiva suscitatami dalla lettura de I tre moschettieri, questo romanzo ha aspettato parecchio tempo prima di essere letto; un po' perché è l'ultimo volume della trilogia dei moschettieri e quindi leggerlo, per me, significava salutare i quattro valorosi cavalieri; un po......more

Tomo mastodontico, questo libro chiude le vicende dei quattro personaggi creati da Dumas e noti collettivamente come "I moschettieri". Un libro che, oltre a seguire le vicende dei quattro e del loro figlioccio Raul, offre come i precedenti uno spaccato interessantissimo delle vicende storiche dell'ep......more

Goodreads review by Procyon

Il lungo addio Terzo ed ultimo romanzo delle avventure incominciate coi tre moschettieri, proseguite vent'anni dopo e terminate dopo altri quindici anni. Ovviamente, ragazzi diventati uomini ben oltre la mezz'et�, e in tempi metallici dove un anno ne pesava per tre odierni, dovranno usare sempre men......more