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A Great Act of Love

By: Heather Rose
Narrated by: Anna Popplewell
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From the award-winning author of The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny comes an enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of champagne.

Caroline will tell the story of how she came to Tasmania, when it was still called Van Diemen's Land, many times. She will cast her inventions into the future. Those who carry them on will call it history, but she will call it her life.

Van Diemen's Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must navigate an insular colony of exiles and opportunists to create a new life on this island of extreme seasons and wild beauty. But Caroline is carrying a secret of such magnitude, it has led her to cross the world, and it will take all she is made of to bring it into the light.

Soaring from the champagne vineyards of revolutionary France to London and early colonial Australia, A Great Act of Love is a spellbinding novel of legacy, passion and reinvention. At its heart is a family with champagne in their blood and a fearless daughter determined to rewrite fate.

Inspired by true events, A Great Act of Love is an immensely beautiful and heartrending saga of a father and daughter, and the enduring power of familial love.

©2025 Heather Rose (P)2025 W. F. Howes ltd. and Allen & Unwin Action & Adventure Historical Fiction World Literature Heartfelt Inspiring
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This is a tour de force. Best book of the year. Heather Rose has surpassed herself.

Beautiful writing

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I loved the way the story wove together so well making for an amazing and believable tale of intriguing characters, circumstances and experiences! A wonderful journey through a period of time so unimaginable!!

Very believable insight into a rare piece of Aussie history

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Really enjoyed this one. Had a few descriptive parts that made me go ‘ewhhhhh’. Some great Tasmanian history woven in to the story.

A lovely read - despite some confronting topics

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Having read Heather Roses's "Bruny", I was looking forward to another good story. Sadly the only way I can describe it is interminable...it just goes on and on! Sorry Heather! your reflections just left me saying" get on with the story"!

Interminadable

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