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Title	:	The Ladies of Missalonghi
Author	:	Colleen McCullough
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 189 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1987 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Cultural. Australia. Historical Romance

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Sometimes fairy tales can come true--even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But it's a brand new century--the twentieth--a time for new thoughts and bold new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted, and unsuspecting stranger... who just might be Prince Charming in disguise.

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Original Title:	The Ladies of Missalonghi
ISBN:	0060157399 (ISBN13: 9780060157395)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Una, Alicia Marshall, Lavinia (Augusta's daughter), John Smith (Colleen McCullough), Augusta, Buttercup, Antonia Wyndham, Wallace, Portia (McCullough), Marcia, Ted Marshall, Richard Hacket, Drusilla Hurlingford Wright, Octavia Hurlingford, Denys Hurlingford, Missy Wright, Maxwell Hurlingford, Livilla Hurlingford, Sir William Hurlingford, Aurelia Hurlingford Marshall, Thomas Hurlingford, Walter Hurlingford, Herbert Hurlingford, Septimus Hurlingford, Julia Hurlingford, Roger Hurlingford Witherspoon, Percival Hurlingford, Nikos Theodoropoulos, Eustace Wright, Old Man Wright, Montgomery Massey, Edmund Marshall, Randolph Marshall, Cornelia, William Hurlingford, Lady Billy, James Hurlingford, Dr. Neville Hurlingford, Mrs. Neville Hurlingford, Sir William Hurlingford the Third, Junia, Malcolm Hurlingford, Dr. George Parkinson, Anastasia Gilroy, Frank Pellagrino, Reverend Dr. Cecil Hurlingford, Mrs. Cecil Hurlingford, Quintus Hurlingford, Marcus Hurlingford
Setting:	Missalonghi, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Blue Mountains, New South Wales(Australia) …more Katoomba, New South Wales(Australia) Jamieson Valley, Blue Mountains, New South Wales(Australia) Grose Valley, Blue Mountains, New South Wales(Australia) Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains, New South Wales(Australia) Caroline Lamb Place, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Central Station, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Gordon Road, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) George Street, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Hurlingford Hotel, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Mon Repos, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Noel Street, Byron, New South Wales(Australia) Nepean-Hawkesbury, New South Wales(Australia) Balmoral Beach, Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Bridge Street, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Hotel Metropole, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Katoomba Street, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) …less

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I enjoyed this, and didn't know about it's probable plagiarism from Montgomery's The Blue Castle until after reading it and trying to find out more. Now I really need to read The Blue Castle...Nice little fairy story, where the heroine breaks out of a wretched life and gets the guy, while the "bad guys" get their own back. I enjoyed the setting in the Blue Mountains of Australia.However, I do feel like the ending was a little rushed--once things started getting interesting, the book was almost

4.5★sThe Hurlingford family had owned the town of Byron in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney for generations; the Byron Bottle Company was the mainstay of the town, owned and run by the Hurlingford men. But some of the women of the town were destined to be poor and impoverished treated badly by the men, and without men of their own, they struggled; but with immense strength of character.Missy Wright lived at Missalonghi with her mother Drusilla and aunt Octavia thirty three years of age, Missy

This is The Blue Castle transposed to Australia, with less lovable characters and more obvious sex scenes.

Oh, I SO enjoyed this book! After getting used to the writing style and the fact that it was one long read instead of being broken into chapters, I could not put it down. The characters were lively and the plot really picked up as the book progressed. I wasn't sure what to make of the ending but I think that it gives the reader the opportunity to draw their own conclusions.

I admit I knew this book was crap when I picked it up. I first heard about it in a discussion of L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle, a vastly superior book. The Ladies of Missalonghi is a complete and total rip-off of Montgomery's story (PLAGIARISM). The stories are exactly the same. A Victorian Old Maid (29 year-old Valancy in TBC, 33 year-old Missy in TLoM) lives a boring and restricted life with her widowed mother and maiden aunt. She wears a lot of brown. She has a more attractive cousin

This is a one of those books that just makes me happy. It takes less than an afternoon to read, and I know it almost by heart, but I love it!

cover:Who was John Smith? What was the mystery surrounding his past? Why did he elect to live alone in the bush and listen to the silence? These were the questions the outraged members of the Hurlingford clan asked when John Smith came to town and stole the valley out from under their self-important noses. He would have to go! said the third Sir William. What was all the fuss about? asked Alicia the clan belle, too busy planning her wedding to appreciate the ominous rumblings of change that