The Glittering Fields

by Patricia Shaw

A saga set in the gold-mining fields of Australia. Clem marries the beautiful but fragile Thora and with her comes a large dowry. They are happy for a time until Clem's prolonged absences looking for gold forces Thora to return to Brisbane, but it is their eventual reunion which causes tragedy.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Australia, Romance

384 pages, Hardcover

First published November 13, 1997

About the author

Patricia Shaw was an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer.

Reviews

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was set Western Australia around the time gold was discovered at Kalgoorlie. Patricia does not shy away from the harshness of life in the outback and how a single act can affect a person’s life. A good cast of characters that love, strive, betray, abandon, and survive. I enjoyed the descriptions of the landscape and could imagine it and the people trying to life under those conditions. A great Aussie story.

[Tanya Boulter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an amazing insight into the glittering gold fields of outback WA

[Nilgün · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ich fand es wirklich sehr realistisch zu lesen. Die geschichte ist mir richtig in die augen gefallen, ich habe es wirklich in meinem gedanken gelebt. Ein Punkt fileicht waehre besser aufgenommen; Lidya und Carolins begegnung könnte man mehr erzaehlen... Aber Super in den Zeiten zu leben...

[Davida · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love her books, great Australian stories.