Daughter of Fortune

by Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Isabel Allende (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.27

  Eliza Sommers becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic, but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, all she can do is follow after him.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.27

  The international bestselling novelist returns to her best form with this magnificent sweeping tale. Isabel Allende's best novel since The House of the Spirits. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling entrepot of Valparaiso. Eliza is a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the charismatic but capricious Joaquin Andieta. When he disappears suddenly for California, and the promise of riches that rumours of gold strikes has brought him, she can but follow after him...