TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexandra, Belinda,
TI  - Southern Ruby
SN  - 9780732296445 (pbk.)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Sydney, N.S.W.
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers Australia
KW  - Hurricane Katrina (2005)
KW  - fast
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Australian
N1  - Also available online
N2  - Forbidden love. Family secrets. A twist of fate. The stunning new generational saga from Belinda Alexandra, bestselling author of Tuscan Rose and White Gardenia. In New Orleans - the city of genteel old houses and ancient oak trees covered in Spanish moss, of seductive night life, of Creole culture, voodoo and jazz - two women separated by time and tragedy will find each other at last. Amanda, orphaned as a child and suffering the loss of her beloved grandmother, has left Sydney in search of a family she never knew. Ruby, constrained by the expectations of society and class, is carrying a lifetime of secrets. Amanda's arrival sparks revelations long buried: a double life, a forbidden love, and a loss that cannot be forgotten. Southern Ruby is a sweeping story of love, passion, family and honour. Alternating in time between the 1950s and the eve of Hurricane Katrina, it is also a tribute to a city heady with mystery, music, and superstition, which has borne the tumults of race and class and the fury of nature, but has never given up hope
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