The queen's colonial / Peter Watt
- Bib ID:
- 8050317
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Watt, Peter, 1949-, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2019
- ©2018
- 398 pages : map ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781760781095 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Sometimes the fate for which you are destined is not your own... 1845, a village outside Sydney Town. Humble blacksmith Ian Steels struggles to support his widowed mother. All the while he dreams of a life in uniform, serving in Queen Victoria's army. 1845, Puketutu, New Zealand. Second Lieutenant Samuel Forbes, a young poet from an aristocratic English family, wants nothing more than to discard the officer's uniform he never sought. When the two men cross paths in the colony of New South Wales, they are struck by their brotherly resemblance and quickly hatch a plan for Ian to take Samuel's place in the British army. Ian must travel to England, fool the treacherous Forbes family and accept a commission into their regiment as a company commander in the bloody Crimean War ... but he will soon learn that there are even deadlier enemies close to home."--Back cover.
- Notes:
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- "One of Australia's best historical fiction authors"--Cover.
- Previously published: 2018.
- NLApp84726
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1996
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