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Stuart, Alison.

The postmistress / Alison Stuart. - Sydney : Mira Books, 2019. - 396 pages ; 24 cm

"1871. Adelaide Greaves and her young son have found sanctuary in the Australian town of Maiden's Creek, where she works as a postmistress. The rough Victorian goldmining settlement is a hard place for a woman - especially as the other women in town don't know what to make of her - but through force of will and sheer necessity, Adelaide carves out a role. But her past is coming to find her, and the embittered and scarred Confederate soldier Caleb Hunt, in town in search of gold and not without a dark past of his own, might be the only one who can help. Can Adelaide trust him? Can she trust anyone? When death and danger threaten - some from her past, some borne of the Australian bush - she must swallow her pride and turn to Caleb to join her in the fight, a fight she is determined to win..."--Publisher description.

ISBN: 1489256466 9781489256461

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Postal service--Australia --Fiction.
Postal service--Employees--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Gold mines and mining--History--Australia--19th century--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Australian fiction --21st century.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: A823.4