The international No.1 bestselling novelist returns to her best form with this magnificent sweeping tale.
Isabel Allende’s best novel since The House of the Spirits.
Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, and the promise of riches that rumours of gold strikes have brought him, she can but follow after him…
- ISBN10 0002259753
- ISBN13 9780002259750
- Publish Date 1 November 1999 (first published 21 April 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk