My review:🌟🌟🌟🌟
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook is set in Bannon Bay, Western Australia in 1896.
Eliza is a young woman who came with her family from England 10 years ago. Her father is the captain of a pearl diving boat, which her brother also works on, along with others.
When her father doesn’t return one day, and her brother won’t say what’s happened, Eliza starts to look into what’s happened, in a time when women aren’t meant to be investigating in this way, especially when blackmail and corruption is involved.
This is a very evocative book that transported me to the heat of Western Australia. I find Eliza to be a sympathetic character, and I was carried along on her journey.
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter was published on 3rd March 2022, and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.
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I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Pan Macmillan.