Daughter of Fortune Novel by Isabel Allende | Paperback - really GOOD
Orphaned Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Chile by well-intentioned spinster Miss Rose & her rigid brother Jeremy. She meets & falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, & Eliza decides to follow.A perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco & northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. Her search for the elusive Joaquín gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, & what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.Condition: remarkably GOOD - A book that does not look new & has been read in superb condition. No obvious damage to the cover. No missing/damaged pages, no creases, tears, underlining/highlighting or writing.