'You wouldn't take on a cleaner without checking out their references. What possessed you to do it with a husband? 'When Mel, an Australian abroad, falls in love with Rufus, the archetypal Englishman, she has no idea what she's letting herself in for. But it is only when their azure Mediterranean courtship is transported to the green fields of England that Melody's doubts set in. For Rufus is heir to the thousand-year-old Bourton Allhallows estate, and Melody is soon painfully aware that, in his family's eyes, an antipodean backpacker is far from the ideal wife. Trapped in a way of life she assumed had long vanished - awash in a stew of formal meals, unhampered snobbery, incomprehensible rules and crumbling masonry - Melody begins to fear for the future of her marriage. And when a set of ancient and not-so-ancient secrets begin to emerge, she faces the disturbing realisation that the stakes are far, far higher than she'd imagined -

Found on a swap bookshelf in Daughters at Hall café in Hall, ACT. I left a replacement book.

Refreshing the library. This has had a month in the Little Free Library in Narrabundah, ACT. # 86492 (OBCZ). Swapped books. This book will be put some place new.

Released on the wall at Glenelg, SA. Enjoy, and it's really appreciated if you can please log this book to let previous readers know it has found a new reader, and where it travels to next. Then we can all follow its journey. Thank you 🙂.


To the finder, enjoy, and I hope you will write a journal entry so that previous readers will know that this book has been found (even anonymously). It is always a joy to find where it has gone. Once you've read this book, pass it on to a friend, or set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find as you did.
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