The Beautiful Mother
$25.18
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2021
Summary
The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Rain Queen and Congo Dawn.
‘You are her mother at this moment. The future is another time.’
In a remote corner of Tanzania, Essie Lawrence lives with her husband in an archaeologist’s camp. One morning a chance encounter with two strangers sees her making a rash promise. When she returns home to the research base, she has a baby in her arms. Essie is to care for the little girl until the coming of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761045103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761045105 |
| Author: | Katherine Scholes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 388g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Katherine Scholes
Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. Born in Tanzania, six of her adult novels are set there during the independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division, and her novel written afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award.
Her novel, The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026), brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania.
Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction, as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.
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