Jh Fletcher: 8 books

A compelling story of a woman's struggle for her art – and for love. Born amid the violence of the Paris Commune, smuggled out of France and raised in the Blue Mountains, Marie Desmoulins becomes one of the great artists of the twentieth century. Overcoming the restrictions to which...

After all the trials and triumphs, the sea was still there ... This is the story of four remarkable women. Dorrie, who, in the dying years of the nineteenth century, dares to defy the conventions of her time by running away with an artist. The ambitious Roberta, who rides roughshod...

Cal Jessop returns to his home on the South Australian coast, still blaming himself for what happened one fateful evening in Paris. Once he was regarded as one of Australia's most promising young artists. Now, the future is bleak; his work, like his life, is devastated by guilt. Kathryn...

Lucia Visconti is feted in opera houses around the world. But it has been a long and arduous journey to the top and her personal life is a disaster ... Born to an Australian father and Italian mother in the Mallee country in the 1920s, Lucia is taken to Italy by her mother shortly before World...

Annaliese and Anna are two women divided by time but united by a common destiny and the heritage whose dramatic history exerts so powerful an influence upon their lives. Anna Riordan, a very successful businesswoman who also dabbles in politics, is at a crossroads in her life. Her husband has...

A sweeping historical saga and the story of a lost child, from the author of the bestselling View from the Beach**.** Two-year-old Jamie was lost in Victoria's Dandenong Ranges, presumed dead. But Jamie is not dead. Found by itinerant acrobats Bruce and Marge Mandale, he accompanies them on...

It is the 1880s, and the paddle steamers are all that keep the tiny communities of the Murray River together. Charlie Armstrong is master of the paddle steamer Brenda. George Grenville is the powerful owner of the wine estate Eagle on the Hill. A broken promise and a stolen horse are the beginnings...

A gripping tale of love and loss, intrigue and betrayal, and of the desire to possess the land that sets the Warren family at each other's throats. Kath loses her husband to war and seeks love in the arms of another man, only for her dreams to be swept away by tragedy. Hedley, whose...