The Last Pearl

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Synopsis

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about one magnificent gem, and three lives bound together by fate ...

1879, York.Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train her as a pearl stringer. This skill will lead her through hardship and pain towards a new life.

1879, Scotland. Jem Baillie knows the immense power of a perfect pearl. His father was a fisher on a tributary of the Tay river in Perthshire, Scotland, and together they found the rarest of pearls, a great white pearl they call Queenie. When this is stolen from them, Eben vows revenge.

Spanning generations and continents, tracing the rivers of Scotland and the Mississippi, The Last Pearl is a sweeping novel of desire and revenge, of family and freedom, and of one woman's journey to open the shell she has built around herself to reveal the true beauty within.

Praise for Leah Fleming

'I enjoyed it enormously.It's a moving and compelling story about a lifetime's journey in search of the truth' RACHEL HORE
'A born storyteller' KATE ATKINSON

Chapters

  • 001 Part1 The Last Pearl REV

    Duration: 58s
  • 002 Prologue The Last Pearl

    Duration: 08min
  • 003 Chapter1 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 15min
  • 004 Chapter2 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 07min
  • 005 Chapter3 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 05min
  • 006 Chapter4 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 10min
  • 007 Chapter5 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 09min
  • 008 Chapter6 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 15min
  • 009 Chapter7 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 14min
  • 010 Chapter8 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 19min
  • 011 Chapter9 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 17min
  • 012 Chapter10 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 16min
  • 013 Chapter11 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 11min
  • 014 Part2 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 13s
  • 015 Chapter12 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 16min
  • 016 Chapter13 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 09min
  • 017 Chapter14 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 18min
  • 018 Chapter15 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 13min
  • 019 Chapter16 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 04min
  • 020 Chapter17 The Last Pearl

    Duration: 12min
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