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Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864.

When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . .

Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.

Paperback, ISBN: 9780571270163, Extent: 544 pages
Publication: 3 Feb 2011, Faber & Faber

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      Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864.

      When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . .

      Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.

      Paperback, ISBN: 9780571270163, Extent: 544 pages
      Publication: 3 Feb 2011, Faber & Faber

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