Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!

Become a Readings Member. Sign in or sign up for free!

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre or sign out.

Unexpected Fortune
Paperback

Unexpected Fortune

$51.99
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to your wishlist.

Professor Francis Wallace was spending his retirement quietly writing a book about Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and other authors–until his granddaughter Adelaide moved in. Her work tracking down a missing Scottish immigrant, combined with the attentions of a conceited upstart romantically pursuing her, upend Francis’s life, and he turns to his beloved literary classics for guidance. Unexpected Fortune is an exploration of family and romantic bonds, immigration and 20th century history, generational differences, and the role of literature in our lives.

Read More
In Shop
Out of stock
Shipping & Delivery

$9.00 standard shipping within Australia
FREE standard shipping within Australia for orders over $100.00
Express & International shipping calculated at checkout

MORE INFO
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alice D. Leiner
Date
3 November 2021
Pages
498
ISBN
9781737083429

Professor Francis Wallace was spending his retirement quietly writing a book about Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and other authors–until his granddaughter Adelaide moved in. Her work tracking down a missing Scottish immigrant, combined with the attentions of a conceited upstart romantically pursuing her, upend Francis’s life, and he turns to his beloved literary classics for guidance. Unexpected Fortune is an exploration of family and romantic bonds, immigration and 20th century history, generational differences, and the role of literature in our lives.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Alice D. Leiner
Date
3 November 2021
Pages
498
ISBN
9781737083429