Bøker av Heather Whitford Roche

Isabella McMillan is young, beautiful, and smart. A much-loved daughter with her future mapped out and secure. She knows what is expected of her - Melbourne in 1956 has a box just the right shape for a Chinese-Australian lawyer-to-be. And yet ...When she meets a university lecturer named Alexander, he seems to offer her freedom from the claustrophobic privilege of her life and convinces her to come away with him. Only in Oxford, England, is the real man revealed. As Issie grapples with her fading dreams and impetuous choices, she is hurled into a future she could not have imagined and does not wish her parents to glean. And so, to London. There at a rundown boarding house, she finds unexpected things: warmth, friendship, the means to support herself - and the strength to not only face her past, but to start again.

Everything Knill thought he knew was false. Now he must search for where he belongs...1921. Central Victoria.Knill McMillan's life is perfectly ordinary: a country upbringing, caring parents, cousins who are his best mates. He is a young man with the world before him.But he's always had the sense he doesn't quite fit in, doesn't quite belong. And then one night he is brutally beaten. As he lies bleeding on the ground his attacker calls him something that he is unable to get out of his mind. And so begins a journey he never envisaged - to understand who he really is, and where he really belongs.'I loved this book. The last page brought tears to my eyes.' Jenny Arrowsmith'A wonderful, rich and intriguing story. I loved the sense of place and time.' Fran Taggerty'This is a very fine debut novel.' Adib Khan, author of Seasonal Adjustments and Solitude of Illusions