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. Set against the background of a young and largely untamed nation, “filled with humor, insight, and captivating historical detail, McCullough’s latest is a wise and warm tribute to family, female empowerment, and her native land” ( People). The results are sometimes happy, sometimes heartbreaking, but always…bittersweet. As the Latimer sisters become immersed in hospital life and the demands of their training, each must make weighty decisions about love, career, and what she values most. Together they decide to enroll in a training program for nurses-a new option for women of their time. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, life holds limited prospects for them. Yet each of these vivacious young women has her own dream for herself: Edda wants to be a doctor, Grace wants to marry, Tufts wants never to marry, and Kitty wishes to be known for something other than her beauty. Colleen McCullough’s new, romantic Australian novel about four unforgettable sisters taking their places in life during the tumultuous years after World War I is “just as epic as her ultra-romantic classic, The Thorn Birds” ( Marie Claire).īecause they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be.
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