This novel tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be changed forever...Peter Carey is the author of "The Fat Man in History", "Bliss" which won the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier Award, and "Illywhacker", which was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker prize.
- ISBN10 0571194702
- ISBN13 9780571194704
- Publish Date 2 February 1998 (first published 28 March 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 144
- Language English