Amazon Synopsis
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...

A beautiful read, very atmospheric.

RELEASE NOTES:

I picked this up at Costa Coffee. It sounded like a good read, it is in my pile of 'to be read's but I've got a holiday coming up!

Picked this up at the Nottingham meet today. I've read the sequel to this, and am looking forward to reading this one.