the death of Jock Witney, domestic tyrant at the head of the largest vineyard in Australia - Domaine de Jacaranda - his family realizes that things are going really badly. When a French group made a bid of more attractive, clan members tear each other apart.
Cornelia, widow of Jack, aged 90, refuses to sell. She would convince Sophie, his granddaughter, the apple of his eye, that the homestead may be retained.
To this end, the Cornelia leads to the other side of Australia in the Hunter Valley, in the footsteps of his ancestors. She took this trip to tell her family saga. Sussex
From the 1830s to modern Australia, Tamara McKinley traces the life of a pioneer family, marked by dark secrets, tears and a curse ... Sophie will she break it to reconcile the two branches of the family and save the area?
This book, I chewed with relish, delight, and sacrifice. I knew the author in name only, without the opportunity to read it until now. I will come back to it with great pleasure.
As always, I am captivated by complicated family histories, those with its secrets, its ugly ducklings, the providential man (here we must look at the women), and overjoyed we are not told how nonlinear, mixing past and present Almost unknown to the reader. What happiness!
Invitation to Travel is powerful. The author, Australian by birth, there is much of its action, and by a subtle play back on the past brings us back in old England, the motherland, with its habits and customs of the time that each Once revolt me.
"You do regret it, Gilbert. You'll master in your house, Rose is the home of Isabelle and will be at your disposal when your stomach will claim the meat, not the toast. Who you blame take a mistress? It is a tradition among married men, you know. " (This is the mother of Gilbert, a lady who speaks well in front of his son ...)
I'd say it's a novel female, because many women are the main characters, and it that they return the power of decision, the strength, character, the spirit of revolt in the right or wrong way, and men are being presented in a more pejorative.
I loved this long homecoming, Cornelia that began with her daughter Sophie. Each has good reasons to do so, both individually and in the interest of the family and the family business. Sophie is back home after a divorce, family matters go wrong, very wrong, the family breaks, Cornelia is 90 years old, and feels the threshold of his life, and would result in some accounts to better prepare for the future. I would have liked to have at least one like it ...
"After so many years of silence, perhaps they wanted to fill the gap and bring a little life into the vines in decline. She was betting big but if he had wanted to save the legacy of her granddaughter. If it failed, it would be the victory of Jock from beyond. "
She liked this grandmother full of tenderness, love deploys a mad energy to put Sophie should not duplicate the same mistakes that in the past.
And then there are those secrets, curses, hatreds family revelations. All this is revealed, distilled intelligently throughout this novel writing fun, dynamic and lively. Once open to book closes with difficulty until peace returns, and our characters restore meaning to their lives.
Many thanks editions of the Archipelago and Bob for allowing me to receive, read, and especially enjoy this book.
Tamara McKinley L'Archipel-368-pages
Born in Launceston (Tasmania) Tamara McKinley is still a child when she emigrated to Britain, where she is enrolled in a girls' boarding school in Sussex. After writing psychological thrillers, the sign of success sagas, including The Last Waltz Matilda, Summer Lightning and The Song of Secrets (Archipelago, 2005 to 2009). Mother of three children, Tamara McKinley lives on the south coast of England, but returns often in his native country, to draw inspiration from his novels.
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