Summer At Mount Hope

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Duffy And Snellgrove
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 296 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Phoeba Lives With Her Squabbling Family On A Vineyard In Victoria, Her Mother Insisting That She And Her Sister Find A Husband.

Publishers Description: From the author of bestseller The Dressmaker and upcoming novel The Year of the Farmer. Phoeba Crupp is a young woman who lives with her parents and sister on a small farm near Geelong in the 1890s. Her father is an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city in order to establish a vineyard, a decision her mother bitterly - and loudly - resents. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter's son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money. Like Ham's first novel, The Dressmaker, Summer at Mount Hope is a black comedy which also contains a more serious strand about the efforts of a woman a century ago to be free.

ISBN: 9780992334475