Angel

<p>The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter passion and more than a little magic ...</p> <p>1960 Sydney's Kings Cross. Harriet Purcell leaves her conventional respectable home and respectable passionless boyfriend and moves into a rooming house owned by Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz.</p> <p>There Harriet finds a life she relishes - excitement adventure and passion. Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz makes a living from telling fortunes and is mother to 4-year-old Flo. Beautiful little Flo is mute and Harriet comes to love her as if Flo were her own - and must protect her at all costs when tragedy strikes...</p> <p>Angel is Colleen McCullough at her vintage best drawing on her own experiences of living in the Cross in the 1960s and writing of a world that has long gone. Most of all it is a tale of a woman's love for a child and what she is prepared to endure to ensure her survival.</p>