http://www.indies.com.au/CompetitionEntry.aspx?CompetitionID=84FREE GIVEAWAY OF THE HOUSEMAID’S DAUGHTER READING COPIES
With thanks to Hachette Australia, we’re giving away 6 proof copies of Barbara Mutch’s The Housemaid’s Daughter. Due to be published in August this year this title is being described as “a life-affirming story of friendship across a divide, which everyone is calling a South African The Help”.
“Cathleen Harrington leaves Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiancé she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged, she finds solace in the friendship of her housemaid’s daughter, Ada. Under Cathleen’s tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist turning the pages of Cathleen’s diary, discovering the secrets she sought to hide. When Ada is compromised and finds she is expecting a mixed-race child, she flees, determined to spare Cathleen the knowledge of her betrayal. But Cathleen still believes in Ada, and risks the constraints of apartheid to search for her and persuade her to return. Beyond the cruelty of their divided country, there is love, hope – and redemption.”
Whilst it is a work of fiction Barbara Mutch explains “this book was inspired by my grandparent’s migration from Ireland to South Africa in the early 1900s."
The Housemaid’s Daughter is an epic journey. An uncertain love. An enduring friendship.
If you wish to receive a free reading copy please email Susie Munson at Leading Edge Books:
munsons@leadingedgebooks.com.au with your address details.
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