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Fiona McIntosh at Robina Library and Community Centre

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Fiona McIntosh at Robina Library and Community Centre


Time & date

7:00pm - 8:30pm, 14th November 2018


Location

Robina Library and Community Centre View map

196 Robina Town Centre Drive, Robina, QLD 4226


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About

Meet Fiona McIntosh, bestselling author of The Tea Gardens, as she talks about her thrilling new blockbuster The Pearl Thief and launches the book on the Gold Coast.

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.

Books will be available to buy for signing, thanks to Book Face bookshop, based at Pacific Fair.

In partnership with Penguin Random House Australia.

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