The Touch (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: The author ripped the title page while signing the book. oops! (her words.)
Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century Australia, this richly detailed historical novel chronicles the intertwined lives of a Scottish immigrant, Alexander Kinross, and the two women who define his world — his dutiful wife, Élisabeth, and his passionate Chinese mistress, Jade. McCullough constructs a grand, ambitious narrative that uncovers the brutal realities of the gold rush era, the rigid social hierarchies of colonial society, and the deeply personal costs of ambition and desire. The story presents its characters with unflinching honesty, illustrating how wealth, power, and cultural displacement shape identity and fracture the human heart. Written with the same commanding authority that distinguished The Thorn Birds, the novel moves between continents and decades with a sweeping, novelistic confidence that rewards patient readers. It is a bold, emotionally complex saga that argues love and possession are rarely the same thing.
Author: Colleen Mccullough
Format: Hardback
Published: 2003, Century, London
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: The author ripped the title page while signing the book. oops! (her words.)
Set against the sweeping backdrop of nineteenth-century Australia, this richly detailed historical novel chronicles the intertwined lives of a Scottish immigrant, Alexander Kinross, and the two women who define his world — his dutiful wife, Élisabeth, and his passionate Chinese mistress, Jade. McCullough constructs a grand, ambitious narrative that uncovers the brutal realities of the gold rush era, the rigid social hierarchies of colonial society, and the deeply personal costs of ambition and desire. The story presents its characters with unflinching honesty, illustrating how wealth, power, and cultural displacement shape identity and fracture the human heart. Written with the same commanding authority that distinguished The Thorn Birds, the novel moves between continents and decades with a sweeping, novelistic confidence that rewards patient readers. It is a bold, emotionally complex saga that argues love and possession are rarely the same thing.