![]() ![]() ![]() Unabridged Audiobook Categories: Literature & Fiction Womens Fiction Contemporary. As career dreams clash with romance and the Depression casts its shadow across Australia, each of the sisters will be forced to confront her own secret desires and dreams, and discover the true nature of love. Or is life - like love - always bittersweet ©2013 Colleen McCullough (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. For Kitty, it is a way to escape the suffocating love of her mother, who can see nothing beyond Kitty's astonishing beauty. In her first epic romantic novel since The Thorn Birds,Colleen McCullough weaves a sweeping story of two sets of twins - all trained as nurses but each with her own ambitions - stepping into womanhood in 1920s and '30s Australia. For Grace, the hospital is a terrifying place of sickness and mess while Tufts discovers hidden talents. They all embark on the career for their own reasons, but the one constant is their love for each other, and this. So concludes Bittersweet, Colleen McCullough’s tale of four sisters who take one of the few professional avenues open to them in the early 20th century: nursing. For Edda, it is the closest she can come to her dream of being a doctor. Nothing is so sweet that there is no tinge of bitter in it. Edda, Grace, Kitty and Tufts are the daughters of Reverend Thomas Latimer, about to become the first batch of nurses to be professionally trained in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Four sisters are McCullough’s avatars of women’s progress in Depression-era Australia. Set in 1920s and 30s Australia, Bittersweet follows the lives of four sisters - two pairs of twins. Colleen McCullough always vowed that she would never write another sweeping family saga in the vein of The Thorn Birds, but luckily for her millions of fans she has now written Bittersweet. ![]()
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