Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter: An Atmospheric Historical Mystery With a Courageous Heroine Intent on the Truth

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Both a breathtaking adventure story and a moving testimony to the lengths we go to for the people we love, it swept me away from the first page . Western Australia, 1886 Twenty year old Eliza Brightwell and her family have lived in Bannin Bay for ten years now. Udo Graf is proud that the Wolf has assigned him the task of expelling all 50,000 Jews from Salonika, Greece. Her quest draws the reader into the tense social climate between colonizers and Aboriginals, the spectacular flora and fauna of Western Australia and Pacifica, as well as the perils of sea voyages at the time.

Men only interested in money, and not at all concerned with the treatment of his those in his employ.Not believing her father dead and determined to find him, Eliza along with two accomplices, heads off to find Thomas.

The society ladies of Bannin cling to a puritanism, although their setting renders such primness absurd. As far as a historical fiction work goes, it rates high for me in that I learned a lot about this piece of history and also the pearling industry. Though I wasn’t wholly captivated by Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter, it is a solid debut, with a lot to recommend it. Beautifully written, unflinching and brimming with adventure' - Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Elektra'Immersive storytelling, a rollicking mystery and a take-no-prisoners heroine' - Stylist1896, Bannin Bay, Australia.Events extend for decades beyond World War II, until everyone’s lives finally collide in dramatic fashion. The story is interesting in many ways but too brutal, We know of the brutality but it's hard to get a sense of the people, other than Eliza and the man who travels with her.

They land in 1886 on the blood-red sands of Bannin Bay, a fictional stand-in for Broome — and like the real town, simultaneously cosmopolitan and isolated, over a thousand miles from the region’s capital. Compelling, fiercely feminist, and atmospheric, Lizzie Pook’s Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter is a truly mesmerising novel.Eliza has no desire to fit in with the society ladies of Bannin Bay so she is ignored almost as if she is not a member of the upper class. She's lonely but she knows she is so very much better off than the people who are abused, neglected, and used up until they are dead.

When British pearl-boat captain Charles Brightwell goes missing out at sea, rumours of mutiny and murder swell within the bay’s dens and back alleys.It’s not exactly clear why Axel volunteers to accompany Eliza, other than he is a decent young man who seems to have admired Eliza from afar.