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The woman in the green dress, Tea Cooper

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The woman in the green dress

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Tea Cooper

Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio

1853 Mogo Creek, NSW. Della Atterton, bereft at the loss of her parents, is in the Hawkesbury, New South Wales. Happiest following her father's trade, taxidermy, Della has no wish to return to Sydney, but the unexpected arrival of Captain Stefan von Richter on a quest to retrieve Australia's first opal, precipitates her return to Sydney and her Curio Shop of Wonders. Here she discovers her Aunt Cordelia, is selling more than curiosities to collectors. Strange things are afoot and Della is caught up in events with unimaginable consequences. 1919 Sydney, NSW. When London waitress Fleur Richards inherits land and wealth in Australia from her husband, she wants nothing to do with it. But the lawyer is insistent and so she finds herself ensconced in the Berkeley Hotel, Sydney, the reluctant owner of a Hawkesbury property and an old curio shop, now desolate and boarded up. As the real story of her inheritance unravels, Fleur finds herself in the company of a damaged returned soldier and a mystery surrounding an opal and a woman in a green dress - a green that is the colour of envy, the colour buried deep within an opal, the colour of poison

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