The Resource The invitation, Belinda Alexandra
The invitation, Belinda Alexandra
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The item The invitation, Belinda Alexandra represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- Summary
- In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ... Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut. Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre. Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption ... and perhaps even murder
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The invitation
- Title
- The invitation
- Statement of responsibility
- Belinda Alexandra
- Subject
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- trueAustralian
- Deception -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueTutors
- true1890s -- 1890 -- 1899
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueRich people
- Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
- Rich people -- Fiction
- trueSisters
- trueDeception
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueUpper class
- trueManipulation (Social sciences)
- trueNew York City -- History -- 19th century
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueGilded Age (1865-1898) -- 1865 -- 1898
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ... Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut. Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre. Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption ... and perhaps even murder
- Award
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10732934
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alexandra, Belinda
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
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- Sisters
- Tutors and tutoring
- Rich people
- Deception
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The invitation, Belinda Alexandra
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063581182
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 407 pages
- Isbn
- 9780732296452
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1038439137
- Label
- The invitation, Belinda Alexandra
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000063581182
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 407 pages
- Isbn
- 9780732296452
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1038439137
Subject
- true1890s -- 1890 -- 1899
- trueAustralian
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueDeception
- Deception -- Fiction
- trueGilded Age (1865-1898) -- 1865 -- 1898
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueManipulation (Social sciences)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueNew York City -- History -- 19th century
- trueRich people
- Rich people -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSisters
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueTutors
- Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction
- trueUpper class
- trueYoung women
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