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Fiona McIntosh at Springfield Central Library

Photo credit: Anne Stropin 2015

Event

Fiona McIntosh at Springfield Central Library


Time & date

6:30pm - 8:00pm, 13th November 2018


Location

Springfield Central Library View map

Corner of Main Street and Sirius Drive, Orion Springfield Central, QLD 4300


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About

Join bestselling South Australian author Fiona McIntosh for a special event celebrating her heart-stopping new novel The Pearl Thief.

Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged woman, hiding her trauma behind her chic, French image.

It is only when some dramatic Byzantine pearls are loaned to the Museum that Severine’s poise is dashed and the tightly controlled life she’s built around herself is shattered. Her shocking revelation of their provenance sets off a frenzied hunt for Nazi Ruda Mayek. 

Mossad’s interest is triggered and one of its most skilled agents comes out of retirement to join the hunt, while the one person who can help Severine – the solicitor handling the pearls – is bound by client confidentiality. As she follows Mayek’s trail, there is still one lifelong secret for her to reveal – and one for her to discover. 

From the snowy woodlands outside Prague to the Tuileries of Paris and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire comes a confronting and heart-stopping novel that explores whether love and hope can ever overpower atrocity in a time of war and hate.

Fiona McIntosh's bestselling novels include The Tea Gardens, The Chocolate Tin, The Perfumer's Secret and The Lavender Keeper as well as her non-fiction title How to Write you Blockbuster.  She co-founded an award-winning travel magazine with her husband, which they ran for fifteen years while raising their twin sons before she became a full-time author. Fiona roams the world researching and drawing inspiration for her novels, and runs a series of highly respected fiction masterclasses. She calls South Australia home.

Book

The Pearl Thief
The thrilling new blockbuster by the bestselling author of The Tea Gardens.
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