Lucinda Belford

Author: (Australian) Boyd, translated by Huang Yuanshen
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Rosalind is naturally beautiful, but her ambitious mother destroys her innocent first love and desperately arranges her marriage with an English nobleman, Hugo. After settling in England, she soon discovers that he is a gambling addict and an unfaithful husband. A series of setbacks follow, and her misfortunes begin. The novel is set against the historical backdrop of the mid-19th century to the end of World War II, covering a hundred years. Through the fate of Rosalind's four-generation family, it portrays, from one perspective, the rise of emerging Australia and the decline of the old British Empire. Critics consider it one of the greatest novels of the 20th century in Australia.