Pook, Lizzie creator author text Historical fiction. Sea fiction. Fictional Work Action and adventure fiction. Novels. nyu 2022 2022 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition monographic eng

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274 pages ; 24 cm "Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. The sea is a shocking blue, and gulls float above battered mangrove jetties. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean. A land where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates. Where men are coaxed into unthinkable places and unspeakable acts by the promise of unimaginable riches. Ten years later, the pearl-diving boat captained by Eliza's eccentric father returns after months at sea--without Eliza's father on it. Whispers from the townsfolk point to mutiny or murder. Headstrong Eliza knows it is up to her to discover who, or what, is really responsible. As she searches for the truth, delving beneath the glamorous veneer of south sea pearls, Eliza discovers that, underneath it all, lies a town of sweltering, stinking decay. The sun-scorched streets of Bannin Bay, a place she once thought she knew so well, are teeming with corruption, prejudice and blackmail. How far is Eliza willing to push herself in order to solve the mystery and save the ones she loves? And what family secrets will come to haunt her along the way?"-- adult Lizzie Pook Maps on endpapers u-at-we Pearl divers Fiction Pearl industry and trade Fiction Missing persons Fiction Pearl divers fiction Missing persons Fiction Western Australia History 19th century Fiction Western Australia History 19th century Fiction 823/.92 Pook, Lizzie. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition (DLC) 2022009544 9781982180492 1982180498 9781982180508 1982180501 2022009543 220225 20240919141419.0 1281587792