{"product_id":"9781867243489-the-sea-captains-wife","title":"The Sea Captain's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mair McCrae follows her island tradition and hunts for a husband cast up on the beach, she has no notion that the naked, half-drowned man she rescues is not just Captain Michael Dawson, heir to a major shipping firm, but that he's also obsessed by a 'ghost ship' carrying golden cargo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Big Henry Island women make the decisions and knit the patterns that mark a man as their own. But Big Henry is also a volcano, and threatening to erupt. Yet when Mair agrees to accompany Michael home, she finds that the Australian comfort he promised has a danger just as real: a social system that tries to keep women confined to small roles at the edge of men's lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd as Michael hunts for the 'Ghost' in his revolutionary new steamship, a string of mysterious deaths upends Mair's new life in Sydney, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is committing these murders, and why is Mair the only one who realises what is happening?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR JACKIE FRENCH\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'a master storyteller ... [she] gives women a rich, strong, and brutally honest voice' \u003cem\u003eBetter Reading\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heartwarming, heartbreaking and hard to put down'\u003cem\u003e Australian Women's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eIf Blood Should Stain the Wattle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41400944328840,"sku":"9781867243489","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/products\/the-sea-captains-wife-9781867243489-281671.jpg?v=1698362094","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781867243489-the-sea-captains-wife","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}