Miles McGinty
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New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of travelling players, Isabel the rebellious daughter of a merchant banker, her home a red-brick mansion in one of Sydney's better suburbs. Both are destined to defy convention - and gravity. She rides in a balloon at the age of seven, defying the tweed-coated official who'd asked for a boy. He learns to float in mid-air with the aid of a mysterious showman and storyteller. But Miles becomes possessed by a secret ambition, the desire to build and ride in a flying machine. When his path finally crosses Isabel's, he knows he's met the only person who can share his adventurous vision. Packed with delightful, sometimes disturbing characters, and richly evocative of the teeming world of 19th-century Australia, MILES MCGINTY is a rare, not-to-be missed treat.
Author: Tom Gilling
Format: Paperback, 208 pages, 151mm x 16mm, 317 g
Published: 2002, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
New South Wales, 1856: Miles McGinty and Isabel Dowling are born on the same night into different worlds. Miles is the illegitimate son of an actress in a troupe of travelling players, Isabel the rebellious daughter of a merchant banker, her home a red-brick mansion in one of Sydney's better suburbs. Both are destined to defy convention - and gravity. She rides in a balloon at the age of seven, defying the tweed-coated official who'd asked for a boy. He learns to float in mid-air with the aid of a mysterious showman and storyteller. But Miles becomes possessed by a secret ambition, the desire to build and ride in a flying machine. When his path finally crosses Isabel's, he knows he's met the only person who can share his adventurous vision. Packed with delightful, sometimes disturbing characters, and richly evocative of the teeming world of 19th-century Australia, MILES MCGINTY is a rare, not-to-be missed treat.
Miles McGinty
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