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The Ladies of Missalonghi
Author: Colleen McCullough

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Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Paperback

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ISBN-13: 9780380704583 - ISBN-10: 0380704587
Publication Date: 4/1/1988
Pages: 192

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Book Description:

Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Dinah R. (WhiteRose) wrote on 6/2/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

I loved this book. It's a quick, short, engaging read. I could really root for Missy! Loved it, I just wish it was longer. I think this book is less than 200 pages.

Rosalie C. (ldybritt) wrote on 8/25/2008...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

With little option, less resources, a young woman decides to kick convention and bravely seeks out the love she knows she deserves,- sometimes you have to go after what you want in this life -

Muriel S. (bouquine) wrote on 10/28/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

this is a real "feel good" book, a short novel that will cheer you up in a hurry!

Holly B. (Eowyn) wrote on 7/1/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

I love this book; of all of McCullough's books I've read, this is my favorite. Missy Wright is a drab, poor member of an extended family of very tall, blond Hurlingfords, who own most of the little Australian town of Byron. She lives with her mother and one of her aunts on the outskirts of town. She has brown hair and her family always dresses her in that color, a reflection of her colorless life. Then, a stranger moves to town and a mysterious relation who works in the local lending library who inspire Missy to try and change her life.