Journal Entry 1 by boreal from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Thursday, May 19, 2005

From the Regent Booksale

Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. 

Journal Entry 2 by boreal from Dunedin, Otago New Zealand on Thursday, March 09, 2006

Well first of all the blurb above is wrong, while some of the book is set on an ocean liner on its way to Australia, the bulk of the book is set in Australia of the 1850's and earlier. I enjoyed this but more the beginning than the closing stages when I must say I got a bit bored by it all. Loved the writing and the descriptions though, enjoyed the book much more than some of the Booker Prize winners I have read of late. 

Journal Entry 3 by PBooth on Monday, February 19, 2007

I found the book on a public bench in Howicks main shopping street. I am reading it at present and will take it with me over to England tomorrow and after I have finished reading it I will leave it in a public place for someone else to enjoy.